Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797

by Mungo Park

It may be best to omit any farther remarks on Ptolemy, at present, and to wait the result of future discoveries. In the mean time, those who are curious to read M. D’Anville’s Memoir on the subject of “the Rivers in the interior of Africa,” will find it in the Mém. Acad. Inscrip. Vol. xxvi.

[137]Page 7 of Edrisi.

[138]Article Soudan.

[139]Edrisi, page 7.

[140]Mr. Beaufoy’s MSS.

[141]Edrisi, p. 7. 11. and 12.

[142]Hartmann’s Edrisi, p. 48, notes.

[143]Edrisi, p. 11.

[144]Ib. p. 11.

[145]If this report of Leo has any particular meaning, and as the river in question carries a great body of water at all seasons, one must suppose that there are falls or rapids, in the river, when in its low state. Time may discover.