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Syro-Egyptian Society, Nov. 2.—Mr. W. H. Black, F.S.A. in the chair. The latest communication from Dr. Livingstone, that he has found what he believed “to be the true sources of the Nile, between 10° and 12° south (latitude) or nearly the position assigned to them by Ptolemy,” was received with much satisfaction; and the passages in the Greek text of Ptolemy's geography, relative to “the mountain of the moon,” from which the lakes “of the Nile receive the snows,” twice placed by him in 121/2 south laiitude, were read; and the old traditional maps, showing a mountain range of about 10° of longitude in extent, with streams running northward into two lakes (as published in the Amsterdam edition of 1605), were compared therewith. A resolution was then passed, sympathising with Dr. Livingstone in his laborious researches, and congratulating the present age on this confirmation of ancient scientific literature by means of modern exploration.
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SCHAFARIK Societies and Academies . Nature 1, 62–64 (1869). https://doi.org/10.1038/001062b0
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