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WHEN Dr. Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls in 1855, he sought to explain their origin by calling in volcanic agency, and stated that they were “simply caused by a crack made in the hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambezi, and then prolonged from the left bank away through 30 or 40 miles of hills.” All subsequent travellers support the same idea; but in his article Mr. Molyneux, in the Geographical Journal, claims that, as at Niagara, the combination of cañon, gorge, chasm, and falls is due to erosion and the constant reducing action of the Zambezi River (Fig. 1).
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The Physical History of the Victoria Falls 1 . Nature 71, 619–620 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071619a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/071619a0