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Updated: June 12, 2025
Many a naval officer of name and fame historic, such as the Rodneys, Cochranes, Collingwoods, and Codringtons, even Nile's hero himself, has been whirled along this old highway. All that is over now, and long has been.
They had various instruments with them; they fixed their station, Gondokoro, at 4o 44' north latitude by astronomical observations, and determined the altitude of the Nile's bed to be only 1605 feet above the sea, by numerous good barometrical observations.... Gondokoro is surrounded on three sides by small granitic hills, ranging about 2000 feet high, which are intersected by the Nile coming from the south, as the king of the Bari country says, from 200 to 300 miles;" which is equivalent to saying from the N'yanza, as it lies exactly on the place he directs us to.
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