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1. Approaching the source of the Nile 3. Another discovery of the source of the Nile
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James Bruce
6. Abola
The Abola is a river flowing through a wide plain, contributing to the Nile,
and Lowes feels that Bruce's constant reference to the Abola may have been
transformed, in Coleridge's mind, into the Abora of the poem, even though
that is a mountain, not a river.
Rather portentously, Lowes says:
Text:
The river Abola comes out of the valley between two ridges of mountains of
Litchambara and Aformasha, the Mountains of the Moon, or the Montes
Lunae of
antiquity, at the foot of which the Nile was said to rise. |
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William Bartram |