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any resemblance to a volcanic crater. It is a great 
valley, or bowl, surrounded by a lofty rim that in 
reality is a considerable chain of mountains. The 
bowl is two or three miles long and as much wide, 
with tall grass growing on the small hills inside and 
thousands upon thousands of curious cactus-like 
In the Crater of Mount Elgon 
trees. Several mountain streams tumble down from 
the gorges between the peaks and, uniting, flow out 
of the big gap in one stream, the river Turkwel, 
which separates Uganda from British East Africa. 
Mount Elgon is not an imposing mountain and 
on most occasions there is no snow on its peaks. 
