MOON, MOUNTAINS OF THE

MOON, MOUNTAINS OF THE
   a range of mountains supposed by Ptolemy and early geographers to stretch across Africa from Abyssinia to Guinea, now variously identified as the Kenia, Kilimanjaro, Ruwenzori, &c.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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