REMARKABLE SODA LAKE
Tile British Empire possesses another curious and valuable lake beside the pitch lake of Trinidad. This is the vast natural deposit of soda situated at Magadi, in Kenya Colony, east of Lake Victoria Nyanza. This lake has an area of at least 50 square miles and an unknown depth. The water is so concentrated as to contain crystals as well as their “mother liquor.” and it looks in consequence as if it were frozen. No sooner has excavation taken place than more soda is deposited from saturated water from many springs. Thus the supply seems inexhaustible, and a railway has been built specially to serve it, refineries have been established, and something approaching 200,000 tons of soda are produced there.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 11
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123REMARKABLE SODA LAKE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 11
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