Abstract
MORE than a century ago Baker1 described the Blue Nile as a mountain stream, rising and falling with great rapidity, and the White Nile as a river of lake origin, flowing through vast treeless swamps in a land of “malaria, marshes, mosquitoes, misery”. Three decades later Hull2 noted that the flow of the main Nile had once been greater, and early this century a controversy arose which persists to this day. Was Nile discharge greater during the glacial periods of Europe and East Africa? Or were the glaciations coeval with tropical aridity?
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