Show why salt lake deserves its name kama the following account of the reasons that induced capt speke to believe that lake nyanza was tile the source of the river nile N which aich in fact it proves pro es to be Is taken front from the april number of harper s and is of interest inte iest lelit in ill this locality as ep explaining laining what many people do not yet mider understand stand the cause of the saline properties of our neighboring like lake here in the heart beart or of the flip continent is is a great lake inko of fresh water which must be supplied by in anny iny rivers the water poured into it must be earned oft either by or by an auth outlets L every sart stream am beats with it mow more or less lei salts pure water only is ii taken up tip by evaporation hence 1 1 lake tilled filled by rivets and emptied by evaporation only must in time become salt c for all the saline aline s matter received ed into it remains is while hile tile the surplus of fresh water 13 continually evaporated evaporate A lake remains remains ire h only when its waters with their olline ailine solutions nio lie candied off by an outlet the ocean is silt salt because the 9 saline aline in bitters poured into it by all the rivets remain there here the sea of Tib tiberian erias red fed and filled by the jordin is flesh it is emptied by that river ri or as fist fast as filled while the dead sea ra fed by the simo samo rivet is intensely salt because irvinc no outlet its surplus sul plus waters aters NN are arc cairned cairies off slowly by evaporation leav leaving I 1 n t the he salts behind the caspian is salt because becallo it 1 aaa m no outlet the gibat lat balei ei are ft esh because becan c their of waters alun in ing down doun niagara ate cairies off iu in tile the at 7 lawaence La speke might have reasoned and most iii t likely lid did rees on thus in his own mind without explaining billI elf to burton here is nyanza Nl a great freshwater fresh water wat C r lake lak e which must auit have an all outlet in 8 somo om a i liver iver til tint ithier must find its NN way ay to the oce ocean it we know now whence come all the african rivers except the nile none of these can drain nyanza but the nile from its size and the nature of its inundation must drain a vast region ats and nd thi 3 region can be only that around nyanza by tile lie process of exhausts exhaust c 11 i r reasoning I 1 conclude that this lake bafo before re me is the origin of the nile |