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interpolation of tho jmssiiwo in tlic Gcojinipliv whore allusion is made to the Mountains of tlie 

 Moon, or, in other words, he holds tlieni to have been written by Ptoleniv himself. " The 

 attenijit of Mr. Cooler," he writes, " to discard altogether the Mountiiins of the Moon as an 

 interpolation in the text of Ptolemy, due to the Arabian Geographers, appears to me wholly 

 mitenable. The passage in whieh he speaks of them (IV, 9, 3) is unconnected with thiil eou- 

 eerning the two lakes (IV, 8, 23), and probably derived from a different autliority ; but it is 

 not inoonsisteut with it." (See op cit., p. 617, note 3.) 



{-') O. BaI'IUXN, Diirch Masai/and ziir Silqiiflle, p. 133. 



(-^) Before these geogra])hieal details were known, geographers were naturally inelined 

 to identify those snowy moinitains of East Africa with the Mountains of the Moon of 

 Ptolemy's Geograpliy. it will suffice to uicnlioii Chakles Bekb (0« the Jloiiiitaiiis 

 forming the eastern side of the Site, Ediuburgh, IStJl) ; Vivien de Saixi-Maktik 

 (Le yard de CAfrique duns V Anlii[nile grecqne el romiiiie, Paris, 1863); Etiexne Felix 

 Berliou.x; {Dorlriiia Ftolemaei ab injuria recenlioi-um riiidicatn, Paris, 1874), Sir E. II. 

 BuNEUHY (A Jlis/ory of Ancient Oeographi/, Vol. II, p. 617) ; H. ToZEB, who, in his 

 Historif of Ancient Georiraphii^ jmblished in 1897, hence subsequently to Stanley's last 

 great, expedition, writes at p. 352 : " The intelligence which is contained in these two 

 statements (regarding the two lakes as sources of the Kile and the Mountains of the Moon) 

 was probably transmitted, not by way of the Nile Valley, \\hicli was not followed by 

 traders beyond tlic marshy region \\luch has been already noticed, t)ut from the coast in 

 tlie neiglibourhood of Zanzibar, \^licrc the station of Khapta liad been established. On 

 this supposition it is not improbable that the lakes here spoken of are the A'ictoria and 

 Albert Nyanza, and the mention of so imusual a phenomenon as snow-covered mountains in 

 the neighbourhood of the equator supports the conjecture that the Mountains of the Moon 

 are none other than Mounts Kilimanjaro (19,700 feet), and Kcnia (18,370 feet), which lie 

 between those lakes and the sea." 



(■-') Amongst the most vigorous champions of Staidcy's view is H. S. SciILICHTEU, who 

 concludes his learned work on Ptolemy's Topojraj>hii of Easte<-n E<jnalori<il Africa (1801), 

 with the following words : — " Mr. Stanley's discovery of this great snow mountain, surrounded 

 by a series of other jicaks, forms, so to speak, the key to the whole question of the Mountains of 

 the Moon, ior it is perfectly clear that by the Ptolennieau mountain, the snows of which 

 feed the Nile lakes, only Ruwenzori can be nu'ant, as may be seen from a glance at 

 Ml'. Stanley's map, where we find a great number of rivers (I have counted more than forty) 

 whicJi How from the hciglits of Ruwenzori into tlie Seniliki ov tlic Albert Kdw ard Nyanza. 

 \Vc have seen that the western end of the Mountains of the Jloon, as descrilied liy Ptolemy, 

 coincides with Ruwenzori, and Mr. Stanley is therefore perfectly justilli'd in claiming to 

 have found and identified the lofty peaks, celebrated in antiquity, in which the Nile takes 

 its rise, and which, for many centuries past, were more enigmatical than any other mountain 

 in t]ie world." 



Dealing witli a question whose final resolution, in tlic absence of safe and positive data 

 ami in the scarcity of actual fa(;ts, must always remain ji " pious wish/' one well understands 



how Schlichter's conclusions were not uiiaiiimou>ly a ])te(l, and even found formidable 



opponents, amongst whom Kaveustcin must l)c sju-ciallv meiilioned. The examination of the 

 arguments advanced for and against would far exceed the modest limits to which I have 

 eonliued myself in thesi' pages. I must rest satislieil with hi'iT {piotiiig tlie ojiiiiion expressed 



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