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had stood on the water-shed between the Zam- 

 beze and either the Congo or the Nile. Mr 

 Keith Johnston jun.'s excellent paper ^ shows that 

 the Serra Muxinga, of which more presently, may 

 represent that portion of the Rocky Mountains 

 which send forth the Missouri, the Columbia, and 

 the Colorado. And he apparently would drain 

 the northern fall to the Congo river, whereas 

 in the Mittheilungen it takes the direction of 

 the Albert Nyassa, and the labours of Capt. 

 George, E..N., would throw the water into the 

 Tanganyika. 



Thus the theory of the southern effluent lost 

 favour, and that which made the Rusizi a north- 

 ern influent soon shared the same fate. In 1863 

 Capt. Speke converted it into a lake or a ^ broad,' 

 of which he had heard the year before, lying be- 

 tween the Tanganyika and the Luta Nzige, Mwu- 

 tan or Albert Nyassa. Presently Sir Samuel 

 Baker (1864) caused the southern extremity of 

 the Luta Nzige, which he placed 2200 feet 

 above sea-level, to over-lap the Husizi. 'I there- 

 fore claim,' concludes Mr Eindlay, 'for Lake 

 Tanganyika the honour of being the Southern- 



1 ' A map of the Lake Regions of Eastern Africa, showing 

 the Sources of the Nile recently discovered bj Dr Livingstone, 

 with Notes on the Exploration of this Region, its physical 

 Eeatures, Climate, and Population.' London, 1870. 



