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CHAP. XIV. 
Defeription of the Sources of the Nile—Of Geefb—Accounts of its feve- 
ral Cataratts—Courfe from its Rife to the Mediterranean. 
HOPE that what I have now faid will be thought fufhi- 
cient to convince ail impartial readers, that thefe cele- 
brated fources have, as it were, by a fatality, remained to 
our days as unknown as they were to antiquity, no 
good or genuine voucher having yet been produced ca- 
Soils of proving that they were before difcovered, or 
feen by the curious eye of any traveller, from earlieft 
ages to this day; and it is with confidence I propofe to my 
reader, that he will confider me as ftill ftanding at thefe foun- 
tains, and patiently hear from me the recital of the origin, 
courfe, names, and circumftances of this the moft famous 
river in the world, which he will in vain feek from books, 
or from any other human authority whatever, and which, 
by the care and attention I have paid to the fubjedt, will, 
I hope, be found fatisfactory here:— 
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