Show IMPART COLOR TO THE NILE the Waters of Great River ArGreen Are Ar Green Ha Has Only Recently Been Botn Explained Green sea lea on the ocean and green water on the time Nile have two mite different meanings The clear wave that sweeps over the leek has hos no relation to the mt ant product of ot the upper upper part of ot the river About April 15 the time Nile begins its rise A month later the effect effects s a felt at Khartum A most curious accompanies this In- In rease In the appearance e of ot green greenwater water vater If used to be thought that the color mme rame from the swamps of at the Upper SUe 1 lying Isolated and stagnant un- un lor Ier the time burning mUFfling tropical sun son and pointing poi pol- the time waters with decaying vegetable vege vege- table amble matter With the time spring rise this fetid water was supposed to be wept Into the streams to make Its Ita In Egypt This theory was abandoned some lome Ime ago JO The The green water Is caused y the time presence of at Innumerable num- num OrS erg of microscopic algae offensive to the he taste and nd smell They have their Va way up in the time tributaries and andare ire are carried to the Nile where under the hot sun and In the clear water they Increase with ama amazing rapidity forming columns from miles to roo miles long The weeds go on growing and dying dyn and ind decaying until the turbid flood floodwaters floodwaters waters put them to an end for they cannot annot exist save In cl clear ar water water- New York Herald |