THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 505 
I norz I have now fully exhaufted every fubjeét worthy 
of inquiry as to the place where the fountains of the Nile 
are fituated, alfo as to its courfe and various names, the 
different countries through which it flows, the true caufe, 
and every thing curious attending its inundations; and that 
as, in old times, Caput Nili Quarere, to feck the fource of the Nile, 
was a proverb in ufe to fignify the impoflibility of an at- 
tempt, it may hereafter be applied, with as much reafon, to 
denote the inutility of any fuch undertakings. — 
CHAP. 
