The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-14
DIR. LIylNGsToNE's EXPLORATIONS IN

On the 22d the members of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society and their friends mustered in unusual
numbers at Burlington-house to hear papers read
containing the latest Intelligence from DR.. Living
stone and his party in Central Africa. Mr.. Gaton
the honorable secretary, read the subjoned commu
ncation from DR.. Livingstone:
TETTE, Nov. &c, 1860
Ny Dear Sir Roderick-We unfortunately miss
ed the opportunity Of sending overland by the ee-
phant hunters, so | opened letter written at Sc
sheke to insert some further particulars. The
river was so low could easily see the bottom of
one half OF the tSSure which forms Victoria Falls;
anc, indeed, people could wade from the north
bank to my Garden Island, to form stGckade for
fresh seeds. The depth is not 100 feet but 3 10 feet
probably few feet mOre the weight attached
to the line rested on slope near the bottom. The
breadth from bank to bank is not eco Yards as |
cnpjectured in 1855, but between statute and
one geographical mic-we say 1860 yards to assist
the memory, but it is little more, yet not quite
1000 yards. The lips of the crack at Garden Is
land may be more than so feet, as we could not
throw stone across, but the sextant gave that
Now come to the other, or southeastern, side of
the crack, and the fSSure, which from the upper
bed oGks like the letter l., is prolonged in most
maIkable Z'gzag way. The water, after leapng
sheer down $40 feet is collected from both ends to
the upright part OF the letter the escape, and
then flows away on the ZgZag part. The prumon-
tories formed thereby fiat at the top, and the
same level as the bed of the river above the Falls.
ne paSe ul Tue H'St on the flSut Is only 4UO PAGES
from the Fall tissure, and that on the left about
100 Their sides are as perpendicular as the Fall;
and you can walk along among the trees, and BY
a few steps the river some 800 or 400 feet be-
low, Jammed in space of some 20 so yards and
of deep green color. As whole, the Victoria
Falls are the most wonderful in the world. Even
now, at extreme low water. when it is two feet
lower than we it, there are 500 feet of wa.
ter falling on the right fGarden Island And the
two columns of vapor, with the glorious ranbows,
are sight worth seeing. A fall called Momba or
Moamba, below this, is interesting, chiefly because
you look down from height of 500 feet. 1t is
really nothing after Mosioatunya.
We visited the river twice on way down to
Sinamanes and found it in very deep crack
The boiling point gives 600 of descent from the
Falls to SiuameneS. Mr. Mufiat informs me that
all the rivers in MnSe!ekatze country run n W. or
n. n. w. They enter the Zambesi above Sina-
manes and above remarkable mountain which |
possibly was the dam that shut in the waters of the
ancient lake, before Mosioatunya was made. They |
are not therefore not where, from oral information
they have been put in the map. The whole coun- |
try below and around the Falls has been the scene
at comparatively recent volcanic operations
Some parts look as recent as Alden; some are of
iT0thg lava, and al! present burnt aupearGnce
IKE cateCtCauIneue III vi rccc.