Note 63 — Chapter XXXV · THE MEETING OF THE WATERS.—THE BÉNUWÉ AND FÁRO.

This immense rise of the river agrees perfectly with the experience of Messrs. Laird and Oldfield, who, from absolute measurement, found the difference in the level of the water at Idda in the course of the year nearly sixty feet. See their Journal, vol. ii., p. 276, and p. 420, note, “fifty-seven to sixty feet.”