[32]This was previous to the Portuguese discoveries.
[33]He was commonly called the Nubian Geographer.
[34]Gallam is one of the names of the country in which Fort St. Joseph is situated; and is often applied to the settlement itself.
[35]D’Anville differs from Delisle in extending very greatly, the distance between Gallam and Tombuctoo; and by representing the Maberia lake, as one source alone, and that the least distant, of those of the river Senegal.
[36]Pliny, lib. vi. c. 27.
[37]Thomson believed it. After speaking of the Nile, he says,—
His brother Niger too, and all the floods
In which the full-form’d maids of Afric lave
Their jetty limbs.
Summer, 811.