Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 2 (of 2)Werne, Ferdinand
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Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile, in the years 1840, 1841, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Werne, Ferdinand
Nile River
All these mountains and rocky hills lie on the right side of the
river. This coincides with what has been said to us previously,
and the plastic formation of the mountains themselves shews that
the river does not break through from E. or S.E., and the natives
are right when they place the sources of the White Stream to the
_south_. On the left side of the river rises first, S.W. 3″ to W.,
Mount Lòngi, at two hours distant; Mount Lobèk, with a rocky head
S.W. 28″ to W., three hours; the flat, round Loffoni S.W. 30″
to W. four hours; Mount Bio S.W. 60″ to W., some eight hours
distant, ascending again to a considerable height; Mount Korèk,
already known to us, on the ground softly rising from the river; it
is one hour and a half from the river, entirely of a rocky nature,
intersected in manifold parts by steep disrupt walls of rocks, similar
to quarries. All its peaks not only lie in the distance, where the
whole mountain appears like a terrace, but also near at hand, in
equal horizontal lines, from W. to 75″ to N. It is perhaps not more
than six hundred feet high, and it is the mountain that principally
affords iron, although all the heights are said to contain the same.
As I distinguished previously Mount Nerkanjin on the left side of the
Nile, by its height, so the mountains seem to increase generally
on this side in height, as also the country from the shore to
S.W. gradually ascends. Mount Konnopi or Kunobih appears W. by N.,
at a distance of from nine to ten hours, of light-coloured rocks,
without any vegetation. It forms likewise a mountain group, with
its six or seven peaks, which fall away tolerably steeply in convex
lines, and separate one from the other. The high points of this
group are of equal form, and may rise to two hundred feet relative
height. Behind this mountain and Korèk, a mountain-chain projecting
on both sides of Korèk, which stretches itself for about an hour in
length, extends in an undulating form, and loses itself to S. This
chain is called Kugelù, and I calculate its distance at being at
least twenty hours. To N.W. 73″ towards N. lies Mount Lokùn,
about two to two and a half hours distant, with a gentle slope of
small height, and to N. the Nerkanjin already known to us, some
eight to nine hours distant.
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