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Art. IX.— Geographical Notices. No. XIX. 
SPEKE AND GRANT’s EXPLORATION OF THE SOURCES OF 
THE NILE. 
THE great event of the year 1862, in geographical exploration, 
has been the reported discovery of the sources of the Nile by 
ve perseverance and boldness of two English officers, Capt. 
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expedition had been sent out, was immediately called, and in it 
apt. Speke made a statement full of interesting particulars in 
= to the route he had followed and the discoveries he had 
made, 
ad of a great, fresh-water lake lying close on 8° south lat., 
and at an elevation of about 4000 feet above the sea line, which 
he at once conjectured, from its size and position, as well as from 
all which the natives told him of its extent, to be a principal 
Source of the river Nile. This lake was called by the natives 
yanza, a term signifying Water, Lake, Pond, or River, to which 
the English discoverer added the name of his sovereign, christen- 
ith the patronage of the London Geographical Society and 
the British Govern ment, went forth in 1860, on a new expedition, 
having for his chief object the determination of this specific 
duestion. Reaching the coast of Kast Africa about the first of 
October, 1860, Messrs. Speke and Grant made their way to the 
Southern point of the Nyanza, and thence going northward they 
traced one of the principal affluents of the Nile from its source in 
the lake to its union with the great river itself’ This result has 
been heralded ever where, in general terms, but having receive 
apt. Speke’s own Report of the journey we prefer to place its 
details on record here’ Their sagacity, perseverance, bravery 
and success elicit universal commendation. We understand that 
volume may be expected from the explorers at an early day, 
from the press of Wm. Blackwood, Edinburgh. 
' v. Proceedings Roy. Geog. Soc., Lond., vii, 212-217. 
