The Discovery of Ruwenzori. 
Other geographers, such as Hans Meyer and Ravenstem, 
attempted to prove that Ptolemy meant to indicate the 
mountains which form and encircle the Abyssinian tableland. 
In the ‘ L Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society” for 
1901 (p. 513), may be found an interesting discussion which 
followed the lecture of H. Schlichter on this subject. 
The Italian geographer Prof. L. Hugues has contributed a 
note* on this question. He has attempted to bring the limited 
knowledge which was attainable in the days of Ptolemy as to 
the geographical position of both the lakes and the mountains 
into harmony with the more precise information at our 
command at the present day, by taking into account errors in 
the mensuration of longitude and latitude inevitable at the 
earlier period. The conclusions at which he arrives are 
entirely in favour of Stanley’s view. 
