ABSTRACT
THE Protectorate is cleft in two by the great Rift Valley which runs from north to south. This valley is bounded on either side for a great part of its length by vertical escarpments. These to the north and south are in parts of insignificant height or non-existent. In the centre, however, or that part cut by the Uganda Railway, they assume magnificent proportions, rising as walls a thousand feet in height on either side of the flat floor of the valley, sometimes bare, but often richly timbered.
