150 Captain Franklin on the Diamond Mines of 



quaint you that the grand geographical problem respecting the 

 termination of the Niger is at length solved. 



" The Landers, after having reached Youri, embarked in a 

 canoe on the Niger, or, as it is called there, the Quarra, and 

 came down the stream until they reached the sea, in the Bight 

 of Biafra. The branch by which they came to the coast is 

 called the Nun, or Brasse River, being the first river to the 

 eastward of Cape Formosa. On their way down the river, they 

 were attacked by the Hibboos (a fierce nation that inhabit its 

 banks), and made prisoners, or rather captives ; but the King 

 of Brasse happening to be in that country buying slaves, got 

 them released, by giving the price of six slaves for each of 

 them. In the scuffle that ensued at the time they were taken, 

 one of them lost his journal. 



" Whilst at Youri they got the prayer book that belonged 

 to Mr Anderson, the brother-in law and fellow-traveller of the 

 celebrated Mungo Park. They were upwards of a month at 

 Fernando Po, whence they embarked, about ten days ago, in 

 an English merchant vessel bound to Rio Janeiro, on their way 

 to England. From their taking that circuitous route, I am in 

 hopes that this will reach you before they arrive, by which you 

 will probably have it in your power to give the first news of 

 this important discovery. 



" I do not recollect of any thing else to acquaint you with 

 that is worthy of notice ; and even if I did, I have no time to 

 mention it, as the boat by which I send this (to the vessel) is 

 just this moment ordered away. 



" I must therefore bid you adieu for the present ; and be- 

 lieve me, dear Sir, yours very sincerely, 



" Alexander Fisher.'" 



Art. XVIII. — On the Diamond Mines of P anna in BwideL 

 kkand. By Captain James Franklin, First Bengal Ca- 

 valry, M. A. S. 



1 he geological position of the matrix of the diamond, being 

 still a question in the history of that gem, the following notice 

 on the diamond mines of Panna, will not, I trust, be unac- 

 ceptable. 



