NYASSA, LAKE

NYASSA, LAKE
   lake in East Africa, feeds the Zambesi; is 350 m. long by 40 broad, at an elevation of 1570 ft., and was discovered by Livingstone in 1859; the waters are sweet, and abound with fish; the regions bordering it on the S. and W. are called Nyassaland.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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