J.G. Jackson.
Footnote 254:[ (return) ] Vide Appendix, No. II. to Park's Second Journey page 103.
Strictures respecting the Interior of Africa, and Confirmation of Jackson's Account of Sudan, annexed to his Account of the Empire of Marocco, &c.
London, 16th Jan, 1818.
It is a satisfaction to perceive (after a lapse of eight or nine years since the publication of my account of Marocco and the interior of Africa), that in proportion as we are becoming better acquainted with the interior of that continent, my account becomes more authenticated, notwithstanding the attempts that have been so insidiously made to invalidate it.
The various hypotheses, for the most part founded in theory, that have within the last seven years, been adopted respecting the course of the Nile el Abeed (Niger), are beginning now to fall to the ground, and the learned and judicious editor of the Supplement to the New Encyclopedia Britannica, founding his opinions, as it should seem, upon the facts that have been corroborated respecting the interior of Africa, has actually adopted my opinion; [255] viz.
That there is an union of waters between the Nile of Egypt, and that of Sudan [256]; where the common receptacle is, I have not ventured to declare, but it is probable that it may be in the Bahar Kulla [257], in Wangara, or in the [258]Sea of Sudan; the opinion that the junction is formed in the Sea of Sudan is supported by the Shereef Imhammed, who saw the Nile at Cashna, and declared that it was so rapid there from east to west, that vessels could not stem it.
Footnote 255:[ (return) ] See my letter to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, vol. xliii. March, 1817, page 125.
Footnote 256:[ (return) ] It is incorrect to say, that the word Nile is applied, in Africa, to any great river: the name, I can with confidence declare, is never applied to any river in North Africa, except the Nile of Egypt, and that of Sudan; whoever has propagated this opinion has mistaken the matter altogether. See Proceedings of the African Association, vol. i. page 540.
Footnote 257:[ (return) ] See Major Rennell's Map of North Africa, lat. north 6°, long, west 18°, &c.