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ATTENTION has been directed on page 351 of NATURE of February 27, 1937, to a natural bridge ” so strong that it bears the elephant from one bank to another”, near Nimule, which is situated at the point where the Albert Nile, as it is commonly called to-day, becomes the Bahr el Jebel. It is clear that Dr. Hurst finds difficulty in believing in any such phenomenon, for in his review of May H. Lindsay's translation, the ” Life Story of a River”, from Emil Ludwig's work, he says: ” Nobody else has ever reported this bridge.” This is not so.
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Wayland, E. J., ” A Dry Crossing of the Nile”, Uganda Journal, 1, No. 1, 68–69 (1934). Another note of interest in the present connexion is the following: Pitman, C. R. S., ” A Dry Crossing of the Nile and its possible Influence on the Distribution of Mammalian Species”, Uganda Journal, 2, No. 1, 86–89.
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WAYLAND, E. Dry Crossings of the Nile. Nature 139, 961 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139961a0
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