GOOD GEOGRAPHY. 



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the Nile spring from two great reservoirs. But 

 the second, bearing the name of Antonio Sances 

 (1623), already reduces these lakes to one cen- 

 tral Caspian, which sends forth the Nile, the 

 Congo, and the Zambeze, and which, greatly 

 shrunken, still deforms our maps under the name 

 of Marave. Similarly, the ' Complete System of 

 Geography,' by Emanuel Bowen (1747), places 

 the Zambre Lake in S. lat. 4° — 11°, the ' centre 

 from which proceed all the rivers in this part of 

 Africa/ including the Nile. 



How popular the subject continued to be 

 may be guessed from the fact that Daniel Defoe 

 (1661 — 1731), cast his African reading into a 

 favourite form with him, the 'Adventures of 

 Captain Singleton.' He lands his hero about 

 March, 1701, a little south of Cape Delgado, 

 causes him to cross several seas and rivers, the 

 latter often flowing northwards, and after a 

 year's wandering, brings him out at the Dutch 

 settlements on the Gold Coast. 



Upon the general question of modern Nile 

 literature the curious reader will consult the 

 well-studied, writings of M. Vivien de Saint- 

 Martin. The valuable paper £ On the Know- 

 ledge the Ancients possessed of the Sources of 

 the Nile,' by my friend W. S. W. Vaux (Trans- 



