LAKE OF PURE SODA.
Signor Cavicchioni has just-, forwarded to the authorities at Rome his official report upon his visit to Lake Magadi, in East Africa. The report states that the lake in question is a lake of pure soda, and, although at a .distance it' appears to be, of water, its surface is solid and' dazs-lingly white. The , lake, comprises 307' square miles', arid at" prosent a considerable .quantity, of soda is daily taken from it, While a' railway is under construction from the lake to the Uganda Railway. When, the railway is completed it is expeoted that Lake' Magadi^wiH supply soda to the- world.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 5
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106LAKE OF PURE SODA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13091, 3 June 1913, Page 5
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