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very made in latter Times — No Evidence of the Jesuits having arrived there — Kirchers Account fabulous — Discovery completely made by the Author,603
CHAP. XIV.
Description of the Sources of the Nile— Of Geesh— Accounts of its several Cataracts — Course from its Rise to the Mediterranean,
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CHAP. XV.
Various names of this River— Ancient Opinion concerning the Cause of its Inundation — Real Manner by which it is effected—Remarkable Disposition of the Peninsula of Africa,
654
CHAP. XVI.
Egypt not the Gift of the Nile — Ancient Opinion refuted— Modern Opinion contrary to Proof and Experience,
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CHAP. XVII.
The same Subject continued— Nilemeter what—How divided and measured,
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