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Title: The Tanganyika problem; an account of the researches undertaken concerning the existence of marine animals in Central Africa
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, John Edward S
Subjects: Zoology Marine animals Freshwater animals
Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett, limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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gion of the volcanicdam, the effects produced by its formation have been noless conspicuous and strange. The whole drainage areaof Kivu has been added to that of Tanganyika ; and it isa most remarkable fact that the outlet of Kivu, the RusisiRiver, is five or six times bigger than the Euakuga, theoutlet of Tanganyika itself Were we, therefore, to cutoff the Rusisi River from Tanganyika, that lake wouldaltogether cease to overflow. The water of Tanganyika is somewhat salt. It seems to befresher now than when Livingstone and Stanley examinedit, while, as both these explorers aver, there are traditionsamong the Arabs that, in the recollection of living men, itwas a lake which had never llowed out at all. From these considerations it would, therefore, seem quiteprobable that after Kivu had filled up through the formationof the volcanoes, its overplus of water flowed into Tan-ganyika for a great number of years, until the level ofthis lake was also raised to such a degree, that it, in like
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5 ^ t/3 V. 5 ij THE TANGANYIKA PROBLEM. 93 manner, succeeded in forcing its way out, and cut a channelfor its overflow to the west into the Conoco. This view of the matter will at once explain the fact thatTanganyika has otherwise unaccountably fallen some 40,possibly a.great many more, feet within no great number ofyears, the overplus of water in it having worn away the

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