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AFRICA'S WONDERFUL RIVER

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 13.

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AFRICA'S WONDERFUL RIVER.

ON the African shore, near the Gulf of Aden, and connecting the lake of Assal with the main ocean, may be found one of the most wonderful rivers in the world. This natural curiosity in the shape of a river does not flow to but from the ocean inland. The surface of Lake Assal is nearly 700 feet below the sea level, and it is fed altogether by this paradoxical river, the latter being about twenty-two miles in length. It is said to be a wonderful fact that this river, of immensevolume (especially at high tide), furnishes exactly enough water to counterbalance the extraordinary evaporation of the lake, and that in consequence the lake's surface remains at a uniform level year after year.—Selected.