Show making aking the desert M ah esert to Blo bloom orn I 1 wt aft AMR I 1 M II 11 I I Q P 1 14 44 k 14 4 I 1 47 soltz J N 2301 X s y ft ma af V 0 0 F wr A 0 AL L L IVA NYANZA 71 A VA 1644 WATY X NEW crannel in the course of his remarkable re port upon the basin of tho the upper nile which haa has juat been issued as a blue BOOL dool sir 1 william garstin Garb tin thi G C al G go british under secretary of state for public in tit eget makes certain fai fat reaching proposals involving vast engineering orlas orl cs the chief of these Is a two hundred mile long channel from bor to the and he lie likewise suggests somo some plan of control co 11 by a barrage at the ripon falls below the victoria nyanza ho lie further suggests the raising of the As dam dani the total cost would probably be he million four hundred thousand pounds egyptian the proposed channel would bo be driven through practically unknown country we illustrate many of the interesting intel esting localities described by sir william gaishin in his recent survey of these the fola rapids aro are note noteworthy Northy as constituting sti the most formidable obstacle to the how flow of tho the nile beti between Neen tho the albert nyanza and Khar khartoum illus 1 orated london news |