Speke and Grant
Anon
Genre: | Notes, Drollery |
Subjects: | Exploration, Discovery, Language |
Thinks the discovery of the source of the Nile by John H Speke and James A Grant has 'confuted the old proverb "Ex nihilio nihil fit"—"There's nothing to be made out of the Nile"'. | |
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