Fourthly. The position of the nation called Garamantes by the ancients; derived from information collected by the African Association.
Fifthly. The truth of the question respecting the Lotus; which, considered fairly, and stripped of the poetical ideas annexed to it, is really what the ancients described it to be. The merit of this discovery, or at least, the distinct proof of it, rests, in a great measure, with Mr. Park.
Sixthly. The proof of certain facts stated by the ancients; as,
1. The Dates of the distant inland tracts, being gathered by the people of the sea coast.
2. The Mons Ater of Pliny, recognised in the Black Harutsch.
3. The site of Memphis, before involved in doubt and obscurity.
4. The singular conformation of the Mound of Bubastis, in Lower Egypt, proved by the French Sçavans.[81]
Although a part, only, of these discoveries, have been made by persons employed by the Association, yet it is probable that the gentleman to whom we owe some of the most brilliant of them, was in part determined to the pursuit, by the discussions set on foot by the Association; which had been established some years before Mr. Browne’s travels commenced.
POSTSCRIPT.
When the above Memoir was printed, I was ignorant that the following passage occurred, in Mr. Horneman’s Letter of the 6th April, from Mourzouk.