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me, that an Englishman, Jacobo Bruce, had been in Abyfiinia; 

 that he was in great favour with the king and nobles of the 

 Country.; that he frequently obferved the fun with an inurn- 

 ment like that ufed by feamen ; that he often afked refpecl- 

 ing the Sources of the A \le$ and that he at length undertook 

 a journey thither- The bifhop faid that he had not been 

 acquainted with this traveller himfelf ; but that his father 

 had known him perfonally, and had frequently fpoken of 

 him. This worthy bifhop, therefore, has cleared Bruce of the 

 accufation made againfl hinij that he had never been at the 

 fources of the Nile." 



Under the head of difcoveries in Africa, we are happy to 

 announce, that the Public will foon be gratified with 

 an account of Mr. Brown's travels into that little known 

 quarter of the world. Mr. Brown fome years ago went from 

 Cairo to Secwah, and in the ruins of Oafis there found the 

 temains of a remarkable chapel, which he conjectures, and 

 with fome probability, to have belonged to the celebrated 

 temple of Jupiter Ammon. He afterwards went along with 

 the Soudan caravan, and paid a vifit to the Great Oafis or 

 Ahuahy tp which no European before him had ever pene- 

 trated ; and which is laid down very accurately in Major 

 Kennel's map, publifhed in the Proceedings of lbs African 

 AJJbciaiion. Mr. Brown then travelled through a defert of 

 confiderable extent, and at length arrived at Darfoor, in 15 

 15' north latitude, which Stands a little to the eaft of Haraza 

 on the map above-mentioned. Here he found two cities, 

 lying at the diftance of two days journey of a camel from 

 each other. One of them was the king's reiidence ; the other 

 Was inhabited by merchants. In the latter of thefe cities he 

 remained two years and ten months in an unpleafant Situa- 

 tion, as he was often ordered to attend at court, and was not 

 fufl'ered to go to any diftance from his habitation; owing to 

 an accident, however, he at length found means to depart, 

 a.nd returned by the way of Egypt and Syria. 



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