. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. rough this narrowedchannel. I have seen many waterfalls during my travels invarious parts of the world, but here was a stupendous riverflung in full volume over a waterfall only 500 yards river at the last cataract of the Stanley Falls does notmerely fall: it is precipitated downwards. The Ripon Fallsat the Victoria Lake outlet, compared to this swift descentand furious ou-rush, were languid. The Victoria Nile, as itswept down t
. Through the dark continent : or, The sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. rough this narrowedchannel. I have seen many waterfalls during my travels invarious parts of the world, but here was a stupendous riverflung in full volume over a waterfall only 500 yards river at the last cataract of the Stanley Falls does notmerely fall: it is precipitated downwards. The Ripon Fallsat the Victoria Lake outlet, compared to this swift descentand furious ou-rush, were languid. The Victoria Nile, as itswept down the steep declivity of its bed towards Unyoro, isvery pretty, picturesque, even a sufficiently exciting scene ;but the Livingstone, with over ten times rhe volume of theVictoria Nile, though only occupying the same breadth ofbed, conveys to the sense the character of irresistible force,and unites great depth with a tumultuous rush. 0 2 196 THROUGH THE DAIiK CONTINENT. [1877. A solar observation taken opposite the last of the StanleyFalls proved the latitude to be north 0° 15 0, or seventeenmiles north of the first broken water of the Sixth Cataract ;. FISH, SEVENTH CATARACT, STANLEY FALLS. 28 inches long; 16 iuehes roimd body; round snout; no teeth; broad taillarge scales; colour, pale brown. and a few miles below the falls, on the 28th of January, weobtained north latitude O 20 0. By boiling point I ascer-tained that the declination was nearly 120 feet in thesetwenty-two miles, the altitude above sea at the SeventhCataract being 1511 feet. As there are only seven milesreally occupied by the Sixth and Seventh Cataracts, the FISU, STABLE! FALLS. Fine scales; weight, 23 lbs.; thick broad snout; 26 small teeth in upperjaw, 23 teeth in lower jaw; broad tongue; head, 11 inches long. intermediate fifteen miles being calm flowing w^ater, we maynot be far wrong in giving the slope of the river at the twofalls a declination of 17 feet to the mile. 1877.] SEVENTH CATARACT OF THE STANLEY
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