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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



tvhich is added an accurate and 

 interesting Account of Timbuc- 

 too, the great Emporium of Cen- 

 tral Africa. By James Grey 

 Jackson, Esq. illustrated •wilk 

 Engravings, 'ito. 



This is a very interesting publica- 

 tion, and if duly attended to, may 

 be a very useful one. Mr. Jack- 

 son, in the prosecution of his busi- 

 ness as a merchant, has resided for 

 d long time among a people less 

 known to Europeans than any 

 other, with whom, for so many 

 ages, we have had such constant 

 intercourse, and has travelled all 

 over a country, less known than any 

 in Europe or in Asia, tliough with- 

 in sight of Gibraltar. The obser- 

 vations which he has made himself, 

 or collected from native travellers, 

 respecting the interior of Africa, 

 form a work of no ordinary value, 

 in either a commercial or literary 

 point of view. 



In the eleventh chapter we have 

 an account of the General Com- 

 merce of Marocco — Annual Im- 

 ports and Exports of Mogodor — 

 The Importance and Advantage of 

 a trade with the Empire of Ma- 

 rocco — Cause of its Decline — And 

 the present State of our Relations 

 with the Barbary Powers. Chap- 

 ter thirteenth is taken up with the 

 commercial relations of the empire 

 of Marocco with Timbuctoo, and 

 other districts of Soudan — Route 

 of the Caravans to and from Sou- 

 dan — City of Timbuctoo — The pro- 

 ductive Gold Mines in its Vicinage 

 — the Navigable Intercourse be- 

 tween Jionie and Timbuctoo ; and 

 from the latter to Cairo in Egypt, 

 the whole beipg collected from the 

 most authentic and corroborating 



testimonies of the guides of the ca- 

 ravans, itinerant merchants of Sou- 

 dan, and other creditable sources 

 of intelligence. 



To these two chapters relating 

 to commerce, we ought, perhaps, 

 to add the seventh chapter, which 

 gives an account of the popula- 

 tion of the empire of Marocco, 

 and of its sea-ports, and principal 

 inland towns. Though it does not 

 touch on commerce directly, it 

 contains various facts, which may 

 furnish no unimportant information, 

 and perhaps suggest some useful 

 hints to ingenious and enterprising 

 merchants. 



Mr. Jackson having given, in 

 chapter eleven, an accurate ac- 

 count of the exports and imports 

 of the port of iMogodor, during 

 the year ISO'i, 1805, and the 

 first six months of 1806, care- 

 fully extracted from the imperial 

 custom-house books, in a table 

 occupyingnineteen pages, makesthe 

 following important observation : — 



" By a careful perusal of the 

 foregoing account of the exports 

 from, and imports into, !the port of 

 Mogodor, the commercial reader 

 will be enabled to form an accurate 

 idea of the trade of that place ; 

 there are several things exported 

 in such small quantities, that they 

 cannot be reckoned as articles of 

 trade, but rather as samples ; but, 

 being in the custom-house books, 

 they are given here to make the ac- 

 count complete ; they show the 

 produce of the country, and 

 might, if the trade were duly en- 

 couraged and protected, form 

 articles of considerable importance 

 in a commercial view ; but, with 

 consuls, who are equally un- 

 acquainted with the language of 



the. 



