Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5)

Note 126 — CHAP. XIII. Attempts of the Ancients to discover the Source of the Nile—No Discovery made in latter Times—No Evidence of the Jesuits having arrived there—Kircher’s Account fabulous—Discovery completely made by the Author.

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Another reason why I think this journey of the centurions is fictitious is, that they say the distance between Syene and Meroë is 660 miles. Plin. lib. 6. cap. 29.

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