THERE can be few tracts of the Earth’s surface which present such a number and variety of interesting geographical problems as the Libyan Desert. The following are some of the more puzzling of the questions which have been asked at various times since I made my first acquaintance with the desert thirty years ago: 1. Did the Nile, or a branch of it, ever flow through the Libyan Desert to the west of the present Nile Valley?…
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