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any resemblance to a volcanic crater. It is a great 

 valley, or bowl, surrounded by a lofty rim that in 

 reality is a considerable chain of mountains. The 

 bowl is two or three miles long and as much wide, 

 with tall grass growing on the small hills inside and 

 thousands upon thousands of curious cactus-like 



In the Crater of Mount Elgon 



trees. Several mountain streams tumble down from 

 the gorges between the peaks and, uniting, flow out 

 of the big gap in one stream, the river Turkwel, 

 which separates Uganda from British East Africa. 

 Mount Elgon is not an imposing mountain and 

 on most occasions there is no snow on its peaks. 



