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Inland Seas of Africa. 417 
cerning the ascents of the White Nile from the exPeiae ej 
by Mahomed Ali in 1839 to that of Don Angelis, w Bru 
Rollet accompanied in 1851, and when the party *oashed 3° 50) 
north latitude, 31° east longitude. Adding to information ob- 
tained from natives and A rabs, and citing Lucan and other 
ancient authors to the same effect, Mr. M’Queen Setends that a 
lofty mountain to the southeast of the cataracts of Garbo, the 
last station of Brun-Rollett and his companions, which must be 
el is the chief feeder of the Whi te Nile, and that the river 
esi, spoken of by the African King of ‘Bari, is —e the 
Tani poste of by Dr. Krapf. - 
en if this view be sustained, it seems to 
grie uite natiguetble with the fresh teuowiedae obtained by. Captai 
peke, and his inference, that the Nyanza is the chief feeder of 
the White Nile. For the southern extremity of this great 
inland lake is but 24° south of the equator, whilst its western 
ea is prepay not more than 150 miles from the lofty moun- 
tain of Kenia. Hence, seeing that Nyanza is about 4000 Li 
only above the sea, and that the eastern mountains, under 
equator, are much higher, there is every probability that this 
vast sheet of water may be fed from the east by streams flowing 
from Kenia, as it is ascertained to be supplied from the south- 
west and west by other rivers flowing from the mountains, which 
et me high sheet of water from the de pressed Lake 
anganyi 
“Tf then it should eventually be proved, that the Lake ay 
anza contributes its annual surplus waters to th napoisroen Nile, 
informs me that Botero, in his “Re niversali” 
(Venieg 1640), says that the eastern mn Nile flows out of a lake 220 miles long, situa- 
laces the sources of the western branch of that 
ted under the equator; and ne F 
Hic lat. 8°, close the sources of the Zaire or aston gael may also 
Zoatton 
tended for the ae, 
ND SE oo. XV, No, 84.—NOV., 1859. 
