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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 156 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAIVASHA , the name of a See also:

lake, See also:town and See also:province, in See also:British See also:East See also:Africa. The lake, which is roughly circular with a See also:diameter of some 13 m., lies at an See also:altitude of 6135 ft. on the See also:crest of the highest See also:ridge in the eastern rift-valley between the Kikuyu escarpment on the east and the Mau escarpment on the See also:west. It is fed from the See also:north by the See also:rivers See also:Gilgal and Morendat, but has no known outlet. The rivers, which have a minimum See also:discharge of too cub. ft. per second, run in deep gullies. The See also:water of the lake is fresh; the See also:shore in many places is lined with See also:papyrus. North and north-west the lake is closed in by the volcanic See also:Burn hills; to the See also:south towers the See also:extinct See also:volcano of Longonot. Hippopotami and otters frequent the lake, and on an See also:island about 1 m. from the shore are large See also:numbers of antelopes and other See also:game. Naivasha was discovered in 1883 by Gustav Adolf See also:Fischer (1848-1886), one of the See also:early explorers of the See also:Tana and See also:Masai regions, and the first to demonstrate the continuance of the rift-valley through See also:equatorial Africa. Fischer was followed later in the same See also:year by See also:Joseph See also:Thomson, the Scottish explorer. The railway from See also:Mombasa to See also:Victoria See also:Nyanza skirts the eastern See also:side of the lake, and on the railway See also:close to the lake is built the town of Naivasha, 6230 ft. above the See also:sea, 391 M. N.W. by See also:rail of Mombasa and 193 M. S.E. by rail of See also:Port See also:Florence on Victoria Nyanza.

Naivasha province contains much See also:

land suitable for colonization by See also:white men, and large areas were leased to Europeans by the British authorities in 1903 and subsequent years. The East Africa See also:Syndicate acquired a See also:lease of 500 sq. m. in the valley of the Gilgal and surrounding See also:country north of Lake Naivasha. North-west of the lake and along the 1\See also:Iola See also:river the 3rd See also:Lord See also:Delamere obtained a See also:grant of 155 sq. m.

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