. The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery . ctantly on this majesticmountain mass, which, with its head capped withsnow and its feet in the dust of the desert, stretchesupwards through so many zones, and performs suchwonderful functions. We have the clue to one partof the Nile mystery—its great periodical inundations,the source of its fertilizing slime. The Bahr-el-Azrek,the Blue Nile of Bruce, contributes, like the Atbara,though in a secondary degree, to the flood of theriver and the fertility of Egypt, with this difference,that it brings down some water all the year
. The lake regions of central Africa. A record of modern discovery . ctantly on this majesticmountain mass, which, with its head capped withsnow and its feet in the dust of the desert, stretchesupwards through so many zones, and performs suchwonderful functions. We have the clue to one partof the Nile mystery—its great periodical inundations,the source of its fertilizing slime. The Bahr-el-Azrek,the Blue Nile of Bruce, contributes, like the Atbara,though in a secondary degree, to the flood of theriver and the fertility of Egypt, with this difference,that it brings down some water all the year Khartoum we reach the junction between the 36 THE MEETING OF THE WATERS. Blue and the White Nile, the frontier also of twostrongly-contrasted physical regions, and the dividingline between barbarism and savagely. The secretthat has still to be unveiled is the i-ource of that un-failing flow of water which, resisting the influencesof absorption, evaporation, and irrigation, carries alife-giving stream through the heart of Egypt at allseasons of the 2: 0 UJ —1 2 U* OF TH REG < 0, < UJ H < 2: —1 UJ 0
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