fUQ AFRICAN RITKRS. 
certainly equal, if- they do not exceed, the 
the Amazons in South America : the majes ^ 9 
of the Ganges does not exceed half their length- j 
narrative ofi^Lord Macartney’s embassy, the exte 
Kian-ku is estimated at about two tliousand tw® 
miles 5 and it is there observed tliat these two ;os, 
rivers, taking their source from the same niouii ^ ^,1' ^ 
passing almost close lO each other in a particular sp 
they separate to the distance of fifteen degrees j 
or about one thousand and fifty British miles, , 
charge tliemselves into the same sea, 
tract of land of about a thousand miles in let’o 
they greatly contribute to fertilize. 
AFRICAN RIVERS, 
THE NILE, 
with annual pomp, 
■■■ TTIVU aUlillUJ. 
Rich king of floods', o’erflows the swelling 
• sig»'f 
This celebrated river is likewise called xVbanchn ,n 
,n the Abyssinian tongue “ the father of ’'.‘'"^ptia" ^ 
named by the Africans Neel Shem, the Bg/f (fiO ji 
It divides Egypt into two parts ; and its exte' J 
source, is supposed to exceed two thousafia .p vt,(|i 
arises 
V 
arises from amidst the mountains of the ’ bf.’Jf; 
Ethiopia, and flows into the Mediterranean “V 
„„i„ n,-o nt preseor o> pi 
channels, two only of which are at pprc®.,,!) , 
The ancients w'ere entirely ignorant of th-.^ * tl>‘ 
river, although many endeavours were i'’, i;i!, | 
explore it; but it is now well known ti _\})p 
the twelfth degree of north latitude. ^It 
Dambia, .in Abyssinia, crossing one of its 
such extreme rapidity, that its waters may t>e ug, ^ 
through a progress of six leagues witbiu this ^ praS^|,ii' 
its magnificence commences : after a furtbe jv 
f t J ^ L*, - — 4^ ••■I o I'H I t"\ « 
about Meen miles, it rushes precipitately 
of a high rock, forming one of the most f 
fells known. It now again collects its sca 
among the rocks, which seem to be disjoint® 
