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  1. Cataract:
  2. Usually a large waterfall or cascade. Unnavigable rapids encountered along the Nile at six points north of Khartoum, Sudan.  The ancient Egyptians numbered them in the order they encountered them, therefore the northernmost cataract is the first.
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