Formation and (xeuei-al Features of Ruwenzori. 



The general directiou is north and south, and the shape is very 

 nearly that of a ^ratten G. The principal groups would 

 compose the main curve of the G. wliile one group onlv, 

 that farthest south, would represent the tail of the letter. 



The range consists of six mountains, i.e., groups of peaks 

 witli glaciers, divided from one anotlier l)v cols without snow, 

 and therefore ipiite clearly distinct from (tm^ another. The 

 area actually covered by glaciers is a little more than seven 

 miles long- in a straiffht line from soutli to north, and about 

 four miles wide from east to west. The- lenath of the vvatei'shed 

 ridge, including all the groups, tliat is to sav, tlit^ entire snowv 

 range, is about 11 miles long. 



The chain begins in the north with two groujis, two parallel 

 snow ridges running nearly due north and south. The eastern- 

 most of these was named by the Duke Mt. Gessi, in memory 

 of the Italian explorer who was the first to circunmavigate 

 Lake Albert. The western group was named Mt. Emin, after 

 Emin Pa.sha, who traversed the Semliki Valley for the first 

 time with Stanley. 



Mt. Emin joins Mt. Speke, which Ijears tlie name of the 

 first discoverer of the .sources of the Nile in Lake Victoria. 

 After Mt. Speke the chain turns westward, rises to the highest 

 group, rightly called Mt. Stanley, and sweeps around in an 

 eastward curve to the grouj) which bears the name of Baker, 

 the discoverer of Lake Albert, who liad the first glimpse of 

 tlie mountain ranges of Ruwenzori. 



Last of all, the group to the .soutli of Mt. Baker, which 

 runs from north-east to south-west, had l)een called by H.K.H. 

 Mt. Thomson, in memory of J. Thomson, wliose work in Nigeria 

 is well known. But after his return to Europe the Duke was 

 forced to yield to the proposal of the English Geographical 



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