California, &c., as is evident on an inspection of the map. The 
parallel system of ridges has been considered a matter of im 
Mountain formation, but that of centres of upheaval are not less 
consistent with those laws. At any rate it does not appear that 
THe Sources or THE Nine.—At a recent meeting of the 
Royal Geographical Society of London (May 9), Captain Speke 
gave the following narrative of his journey with Capt. Burton 
into the interior of Africa. His remarks were called out by wi 
paper of Mr. Macqueen’s, the object of which had been to rove 
that the mountain Kilimandjaro is actually snow covered but 
that it has no connection with the River Nile. a 
Capt. Speke’s remarks are thus reported in the Proceedings of 
i 4: 
the Society, vol. iii, No. 
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