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Identifier: zanzibarcityisla01burt_0 (find matches)
Title: Zanzibar: city, island, and coast
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London, Tinsley brothers
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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oyal Geographical Society,affirms the Asua to have been a dry channel 150 yards widewhen he crossed it, in Jan. 9, 1864, but rolling 15 feet deepin the wet season. He can hardly be speaking of the drainfrom the Baringo Lake, which must be large and perennial,and which therefore must be sought farther north, unless itanastomoses with some other stream. M. dArnaud, theFrench engineer sent in 1840-1841 by Mohammed AliPasha to explore the Upper Nile, reported (Journal BoyalGeographical Society, vol. xviii. p. 73) that about 30 leaguessouth of where the expedition was stopped by shallow waterin N. lat. 4° 42 42, and therefore in N. lat. 3° 12, theseveral branches unite, the chief one flowing from the east. The Baringo Palus must act reservoir to the whole N.Western declivities of Doenyo Ebor, whose snows have givenit a name. Ptolemy (iv. 8) distinctly mentions the x(°vas>or (melted) snows which feed the Nile ; and though heplaces them in S. lat. 12? 30, he is correct as to the exist-
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  • booksubject:Ethnology
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