. Scottish geographical magazine. ded Germany totake for her share in the partition of Africa the East African for Germany, the development of the Congo Free Statehas considerably, ifnot entirely, reducedthe commercial valueof her African Empire,and the State hasdiverted her trade aswell as the trade ofthe Sudan and ofNorthern will be more andmore the case as theCongo Free State car-ries out its far-reach-ing railway project of aCentral Trans-Africanrailway is beingrapidly matured, andhas been practicallydecided, and will di-rectly connect th
. Scottish geographical magazine. ded Germany totake for her share in the partition of Africa the East African for Germany, the development of the Congo Free Statehas considerably, ifnot entirely, reducedthe commercial valueof her African Empire,and the State hasdiverted her trade aswell as the trade ofthe Sudan and ofNorthern will be more andmore the case as theCongo Free State car-ries out its far-reach-ing railway project of aCentral Trans-Africanrailway is beingrapidly matured, andhas been practicallydecided, and will di-rectly connect the richmineral regions ofKatanga with theLower Congo. Andthe time is not fardistant when on thebanks of Tanganyikathere will arise agreat tropical city, thesuccessor of the Xyangwe and Kasongo of the Arab slave-traders, whichwill be to the Lake district of Central Africa what Chicago has become tothe Lake district of the United States, namely, the predestined emporiumof commerce, the converging point of all lines of A View on the Railway. II. For indeed the economic possibilities of the Congo are enormous,and an extraordinary variety of soil and climate and geographical con-ditions makes it produce every variety of natural wealth. Geographically the Congo Empire, which extends from 12° longitudeE. to 31° and from 5° latitude N. to 13° latitude S., may be divided intofive parts. 1. The Estuary and Lower Congo. Emerging from the CrystalMountains, where a long succession of thirty-two rapids, called theLivingstone Falls, has made its course unnavigable, the Lower Congo 1- SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. below Matadi has a width of about 1000 metres, which extends to 13,000 when the majestic river
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