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142 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
some of its waters into the sea on the west coast, and some into the same 
receptacle on the east coast, or to write more magniloquently, Lotembua 
divides its waters between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. 
The real form of the continent is not, as was imagined, an elevated 
table land, with high mountains—African Cordilleras—running from 
north to south, but a hollow basin with an elevated ridge, distant in both 
cases, about 300 miles from the coast. This is clearly evident from all 
tre of the continent. The feeders of the Zambesi on the west, as Loete, 
Simah and Chobe, flow in this direction into the Zambesi or Leambye, 
Casai and Leambye run north and south respectively, till they find open- 
tunya (see above). a is about the highest point in the basin, 
it runs both ways. The cou all the extra basin rivers, as 
Couza, &c., are necessarily short. Now take care to imbibe the real idea 
the ridges on both sid 
conjecture, from recollection, that this indicates between 3,000 and 4,000 
east. Such, too, is the strike of the strata, and the dip is toward the 
the series which form the 
sure of Mosioatunya was made, there was a vast lake west of it, wh 
included Lake Ngami, Libele, Linyanti, dec. é&c., in its bosom. The Zam 
besi then flowed in a bed on the of the fissure, and in which a small 
