lers Whom I met tfaei-e, and who had travelled m
Sudan, about the Nile t^ their countiy, th^
stated that it rose m joountairu of saadf (confines
of the Desert perhaps they meant) and that it col-
lects in Sudan into large seas, (or lakes ;) that it is
latknomi where it t^iemiardsjlffwed to, and that its
colour was not white." Here is the most convin-
dog proof that the rivers were dUSsrent. Stand-



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ing oa tbe IuuiIeb o€ the Bahi-el-Afaigd, tbey must
liave fcttosco if it vbb the suae ziver wHpb passed
t^TOUgli tbeic conn(i7. (. S p dio n.) Vfhea they state
fe^iEt ihey were ignarant of the t^raitivtion of the
Nile of BndBD, aad ttat iti colmir -was not white,
Vke thft colour of the Bohr-el- Abtad, they in fact
distiac^tr 8tale>. tiiat the latter was « diSerent ri-
ver from the Satmet.
