. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 45 and Lake Chilwa—are a mass of beautiful hills ranging from 3000 feet to nearly 7000 feet in height. The highest mountain in the Shire Highlands is Mount Zomba. This is a smaller mass than Mlanje but very similar to it in shape and arrangement. Like Mlanje it is a large plateau but its higher peaks are rather the up-reared edges of the plateau (like the rim of a dish) than independent cones that rise from the centre. The h
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 45 and Lake Chilwa—are a mass of beautiful hills ranging from 3000 feet to nearly 7000 feet in height. The highest mountain in the Shire Highlands is Mount Zomba. This is a smaller mass than Mlanje but very similar to it in shape and arrangement. Like Mlanje it is a large plateau but its higher peaks are rather the up-reared edges of the plateau (like the rim of a dish) than independent cones that rise from the centre. The highest point of Zomba is computed to attain an altitude of 6900 odd feet. It may turn out on more careful investigation to actually reach 7000 feet. In Southern Angoniland, in the south-western portion of the Protectorate, Mount is computed at 7000 feet and other high mountains like Chongoni are not far off in altitude. In the mountains to the west of Lake Nyasa the higher peaks of the lofty Nyika plateau reach to over ^000 feet in height. The average altitude of the Nyika plateau is 7000 feet. One or two [joints on the Nyasa- Tanganyika plateau may touch 7000 feet and likewise in the northern part of the Muchinga (Lukinga) mountains west of the river Luangwa. Elsewhere. 1 HI-: MLANJE RANGE FROM THE fUCHILA II \I\ in British Central Africa, in the basin of the Kafue and Lunsefwa rivers, and to the west of Lake Hangweolo there is probably no greater altitude than 6000 feet. Although they, are not in British territory and therefore not within the scope of this book, a passing mention should be made of the Livingstone Mountains which border the north-east coast of Lake Nyasa and extend under various names to the south end of Lake Rukwa. They reach to altitudes which possibly slightly exceed that of Mlanje and come very near to 10,000 feet. This is pre-eminently a country of great lakes. Lake Tanganyika is over 400 miles in length with a breadth varying from 60 to 30 miles
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