78 Geographical Notices. . 
} The point of confluence presents the appearance 
f a diminutive lake at a sharp elbow of the Nile, and has hardly 
considerable velocity, carrying as I have said the palms with it. 
second affluent in order of position, which, with all the others, is on the 
right of the Nile, is the Giraffe River, swirling with a considerable stream 
and graceful round into the parent Nile. 
greater than the Giraffe River, but less in velocity; so that we may infer 
their perennial contents are much the same. Unfortunately, the North- q 
of far greater magnitude tha: 
streams may be one siver still 
