AFRICA. 



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Nations. 



Length. 



Breadth 



Square 

 Miles. 



Chief Cities. 



Distance and 



bearing from 



London. 



Difference of 

 time from 

 London. 



Religion. 1 



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Morocco \ 

 ■ Tasilet, &C. S 

 Alters 

 Tunis 

 Tripoli 

 Barca 



500 



480 

 220 

 700 

 400 



480 



100 

 170 

 240 

 300 



219,400 



143,600 

 54,400 

 75.000 

 66,400 



Fez 



Algier 

 Tunis 

 Tripoli 

 Polenieta 



1080 S. 



920 S. 



990 S. E. 

 1260 S. E. 

 1440 S. E. 



24 after 



13 before 

 39 before 



56 before 



1 26 before 



Mahom. 



Mahom. | 

 Mahom. | 

 Mahom. 

 Mahom. J 



E&>pt 



600 



250 



140,700 



Grand Cairo 



1920 S. E. 



2 21 before 



Mahom. 



Biledulgerid 



2500 



.*50 



485,000 



Dara 



1565 S. 



32 after 



Pagans. J 



Zaara 



3400 



660 



739,200 



Tegessa 



1800 S. 



24 after 



Pagans. 



Negroland 



2200 



840 



1,026,000 



Madinga 



2500 S. 



38 after 



Pagans. 1 



Guinea 



1800 



360 



510,000 



Benin 



2700 S. 



20 before 



Pagans. J 



Nubia 



940 



600 



264,000 



Nubia 



2418 S. E. 



2 12 before 



Mah. & Pa. 



Abyssinia 



900 



800 



378,000 



Gondar 



2880 S. E. 



2 30 before 



Christians. { 



Abex 



540 



130 



160,000 



Doncala 



3580 S. E. 



2 36 before 



Chr. & Pa. 



The middle 



parts, called Lower Ethiopia, are very little known to 

 computed at 1,200,000 square miles. 



the Europeans, but are 



Loango 



410 



300 



49,400 



Loango 



3300 S. 



44 before 



Chr. & Pa. 



Congo 



540 



420 



172,800 



St. Salvador 



3480 S. 



1 before 



Chr. & Pa. 



Angola 



360 



250 



38,400 



Loando 



3750 S. 



58 before 



Chr. & Pa. 



Benguela 



430 



180 



64,000 



Benguela 



3900 S. 



58 before 



Pagans. 



Mataman 



450 



240 



144.000 



No Towns 



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• • • • 



Pagans. 



Ajan 



900 



300 



234.000, 



Brava 



3702 S. E. 



2 40 before 



Pagans. 



Zangaebar 



1400 



350 



275,000 



Melinda or 

 Mozambique 



4440 S. E. 



2 38 before 



Pagans. 



Monomotapa 



960 



650 



222 500 



Monoraota 



4500 S. 



1 18 before 



Pagans. 



Moneraugi 



900 



660 



310,000 



Chicova 



4260 S. E. 



1 44 before 



Pagans. 



Sosola 



480 



300 



97,000 



Sosola 



4600 S. E. 



1 18 before 



Pagans. 



Terra de Nat. 



600 



350 



184,000 



No Towns 



» * • » 



• » .- * 



Pagans. 



CafFraria or ? 

 Hottentot $ 



708 



660 



200 340 



Cape ot Good 

 Hope 



5200 S. 



1 4 before 



Most stupid 

 Pagans. 



The principal islands in Africa lie in the Indian Seas and Atlantic Ocean; of 

 which the following- belong to, and trade with, the Europeans, and serve to re- 

 fresh their shipping- to and from Asia. 



ISLANDS. 



Babel Mandel, at the entrance of the Red Sea 



Zocotra in the Indian Ocean 



The Comora isles, ditto .... 



Madagascar, ditto 



Mauritius, ditto . 



Bourbon, ditto ...... 



St. Helena, in the Atlantic Ocean 



Ascension, ditto 



St.MatthPW, ditto 



St. Thomas, Anaboa, Prince Island,") ....„ 

 Fernandopo j dlttq 



Cape Verd Islands, ditto . . . 



Goree, ditto 



Canaries, ditto 



Madeiras, ditto 



The Azores, or Western Isles, lie ~) 

 nearly at an equal distance from V ditto 

 Europe, Africa, and America. J 



Sq. Miles. 



3,600 

 1,000 

 168,000 

 1,840 

 2,100 



2,000 

 1,500 



TOWNS. 



Trade with, or 

 belonging to 



Babel- Mandel 



Caulasia 



Joanna 



St. Austin . 



Mauritius ■ 



Bourlion 



St. Helena 



St. Thomas, Anaboa 



St. Domingo . 

 Fort St. Michael 

 Palma St. Christopher 

 Santa Cruz, Funchal 



2,000 Angra, St. Michael Ditto 



I I 



All Nations 



Ditto 



Ditto 



Ditto 



French 



Ditto 



English 



Uninhabited 



Ditto 



Portuguese 



Ditto 

 French 

 Spanish 

 Portuguese 



We shall now proceed to describe particularly the more considerable coun- 

 tries of Africa, as far as they are known to Europeans, from the accounts of the 

 latest travellers ; beginning-, as usual, from the west and north, with the states 

 of Barbary, 



