Baktiserica ] SURFACE 17

by a range of openrocky hills rising to about 4,800 ft. North and west of these lie the great Budonga and Bugoma forests. North -west, towards Lake Albert , (2,064 square miles ), which lies at an altitude of 2,028 ft . above the sea, the ground falls abruptly about 1,000 ft. The plains at the foot ofthis escarpmentare salt and barren. Northof LakeAlbert, along theBahr el-Jebel , the country is mainly a thinly -inhabited, grassy plain, with strips of forest in the tributary valleys. On the west it rises rapidly to the broken highịandsof the Congo-Nile watershed, whichhavean altitude of between4,500 and 6,000 ft. The Nile trough and also that portion of East Bunyoro which lies between Masindi and the Victoria Nile are decidedly arid .

; (3 ) The Eastern Plains. This region consists of open plains which rise gradually from the Nile Valley to the edge of the Lake Rudolf escarpment, thence dropping to the arid Turkana plains. The south eastern corner of this region , on the border of the East Africa Protectorate , '' is is occupied by the isolated volcanic mass of Mount Elgon. Further west the country sinks to the rolling plains of Budama . The 'country is well watered and fertile, and supports a dense agricultural population .

Further north also , in the district of Teso , there is much cultivation. The land here slopes westward to Lake Kioga in a succession of low ridges and swamps. West of Teso and north of Lake Kioga and Lake Kwania lies the district of Lango, a region of flat grass and bush -covered plains with numerous granite outcrops. The soil is fertile, and the district, like Bukedi and Teso, supports à very large population.

Tº the north of these districts the country is much more arid: Thinly -peopled, bush -covered plains rise gradually eastward from the Nile trough to the hilly region which runs southward from Mount Agoro ( 9,400 ft.) to the Lobor-Nakwai Hills . These separate the : Acholi country on the west from the Dodosi Karamojo country to the east. : The latter is a platea