242 Dr Beke on the Mountains forming 
Africa the word “ Moezi,” in various forms, means “the 
moon,”* the name of the Mountains of the Moon appeared to 
me to be merely a translation of the native African expres- 
sion, “the Mountains of Moezi.”’ 
Guided by this clew, I further developed my views at the 
meeting of the British Association at Swansea in 1848, when 
1 claimed for the mountain range of Eastern Africa the generic 
designation of the Mountains of the Moon.t 
Finally, at the meeting of the British Association at Ipswich 
in 1851, I read “ A Summary of Recent Nilotic Discovery,” t 
in which I traved the progress of our knowledge in this direc- 
tion as far as it then extended. 
On my return to England, after an absence of several years, 
I have much gratification in renewing my communications to 
the British Association, especially as it is in my power to 
show that the great additions which have been made to our 
geographical knowledge since the opinions here referred to 
were expressed, have all tended to establish the substantial 
truth of those opinions. 
The elevation of the bed of the direct stream of the White 
River at Gondokoro, in 4° 44’ north latitude, resulting from 
relative measurements made there and at Kharttm, appears 
to be even less than my estimate in 1846, being only 1911 
feet ;§ while the explorations of Mr Petherick further to the 
west, would seem to show the fall of the river to be even less in 
that direction than it is towards the south-east. 
On the other hand, the mountain range of Eastern Africa, 
forming the anticlinal axis between the ocean and the basin 
of the Nile, which in 1846 I was only able to trace as far 
south as 9° 30’ north latitude, where I crossed it on my way 
to Shoa,|| may now be regarded as extending beyond the sixth 
* In * The Sources of the Nile,” p. 82, is alist of upwards of twenty lan- 
guages in which it has that signification. 
t See “ Report of the British Association for 1848 ;” Transactions of the 
Sections, pp. 63, 64. This paper is printed in extensu in the “ Edinburgh 
New Philosophical Journal,” vol. xlv. pp .221-251. 
{ See “ Report of the British Association, for 1851 ;” Transactions of the 
Sections, p. 84. This paper is printed in eaxtenso in the “ Philosophical Maga- 
zine,” 4th Series, vol. ii. pp. 260-268. 
§ See ‘“‘ The Sources of the Nile,” p. 36. 
|| See “ Journal Royal Geographical Society,” vul. xiv., and the map there, 
