Dry Crossings of the Nile

ATTENTION has been directed on page 351 of NATURE of February 27, 1937, to a natural bridge ” so strong that it bears the elephant from one bank to another”, near Nimule, which is situated at the point where the Albert Nile, as it is commonly called to-day, becomes the Bahr el Jebel. It is clear that Dr. Hurst finds difficulty in believing in any such phenomenon, for in his review of May H. Lindsay's translation, the ” Life Story of a River”, from Emil Ludwig's work, he says: ” Nobody else has ever reported this bridge.” This is not so.