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 THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. ? 2 5

I hope I have now fully exhaufted every fubjcft worthy of inquiry as to the place where the fountains of the Nile are fttuated, alio as to its courfe and various names, the different countries through which it flows, the true caufe, and every thing curious attending its inundations; and that as in old times, Caput Nili Quaarere, tofeek tbefource of the Me, was a proverb in ufe to fignify the impoffibility of an at- tempt, it may hereafter be applied, with as much reafon,to denote the inutility of any fuch undertakings.

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