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left bank. ‘The Godjeb has been presumed to be the upper portion of 
the Jub or Gowind, which falls into the Indian Ocean near the line 5 
Beke’s own information, to be untenable: indeed, M. D’Abbadie pos- 
itively considers it to be the head of the Nile. The second Egyptian 
expedition ascended the main stream of the Nile as far as 4° 42’ 42” N. 
—at which point our positive information ceases; but from the inform- 
_ation collected by M. d’Arnaud and M. Werne, who accompanied the 
expedition, Dr. Beke shows the existence of another great arm of the 
Nile, éalled the Shoa Berri; which, like the Abai and Godjeb, joins 
the main — from the 8.E., and exhibits the remarkable spiral 
course common to those rivers, ‘with many others of the Abyssinian 
plateau. As fegeite the main stream, Dr. Beke, from a comparison of 
various authorities, both ancient and modern, carries the Nile up to the 
country Mon o-Moéz sp we in fact, shows the great para of its 
old:taaps. In the name seus Moézi, Dr. Beke finds the citi of the 
which he slew to be an elevated table-land, isin an abrupt declivity 
towards the sea-coast, and a very gradual slope landwards down to the 
Nile, which skirts its base ; and the ridge of which has an elevation 
} 8,000 to 9,000 feet above the ocean, independent of isolated 
mountain masses which attain a height of from 11,000 to 15,000 feet 
4. Water raised by Waves through Valved Tubes, (Athen. Ne. 
1001. a feasible and obvious application of Harvey’s grand 
covery of the use of valves in raising the blood through ih veins, fies 
just been suggested by a correspondent of the Mechanics’ Magazine ; 
any. requisite purpos “The inventor proposes to test the practicability 
of this kind of WarersBit on Southsea Beac 
5. Electric amen Fact v. Fancy, (Athen., No. 1001.)—A pas- 
ulous extravagance, yet more than realized in one of the most extra-, 
cay applications of modern science :—* Strada, in one of his pro- 
lusions, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two 
fiends by the help of a certain loadstone,—which had such virtue in it 
pom if touched by two several needles, when one of the needles so 
began to move, the other, though at ever so great a distance, 
moved at the same ~~ = in the same manner. He tells us that two 
friends, being each of. them possessed of these needles, made a k kind of 
dial-plate » inscribing it swish bs eereiity foot? letters—in the same manner as 
he day are marked upon the ordinary dial-plate. They 
bre fixed one of _ needles on each of _ plates in such a manner 
