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NEW NILE SOURCE. 



Dr Beke, it appears, doubly deserves the 

 title 6 Theoretical Discoverer of the Nile Sources.' 

 He has lately transferred the Caput from S. lat. 

 2°— 3° to S. lat. 10° 30—11°, and from E. long. 

 34° to E. long. 18° — 19°, making the stream pass 

 through 43° of latitude, and measuring diagon- 

 ally one-eighth of the circumference of the 

 globe. ( £ Solution of the Nile Problem,' Athe- 

 naeum, Eeb. 5, 1870). The Nile is thus identified 

 with the Kasai, or Kassavi, the Casais of P. J. 

 Baptista (the Pombeiro), the Casati of Douville, 

 the Casasi of M. Cooley, the Cassabe of M. J. B. 

 Graca, the Kasaby of Mr Macqueen, and the 

 Kasye or Loke of Dr Livingstone. These c New 

 Sources ' are in the 6 primaeval forests of Olo- 

 Vihenda and Djikoe or Kibokoe (the Quiboque 

 of the Hungarian officer Ladislaus Magyar), in 

 the Mossamba Mountains, about 300 miles from 

 the coast of Benguela. Mr Keith Johnston, jun. 

 believes that the Lufira-Luapula river is the 

 lower course of the Kassavi or Kassabi, which is 

 usually made to rise in S. lat. 12°, near the 

 Atlantic seaboard, and after flowing N. E. and 

 N. as far as about S. lat. 8°, to turn eastward 

 instead of continuing to the N. W. and W. He 

 makes it, however, the true head of the Congo, 

 not of the Nile. 



