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APPENDIX. 
A description of the caravan routes from Tripoly, to Mourzouk, Egypt, 
and the Niger, will be found in die Proceedings of the Association, published 
in 1790^ and 1791 (chapters x. and xii.) 
The point on which the central and eas lernipos\tions depend, is Ghinny; 
or Ghana, (as Edrisi and Abulfeda call it) a city, and capital of a kingdom 
situated nearly midway between the Indian Sea and the Atlantic, on the E 
and W ; and between the Mediterranean and the Ethiopic Seas, on the N 
and S. Fortunately, this point, on which so many others depend, can be satis- 
factorily approximated : though by this, I do not mean to any degree of 
nicety, where an extent of 70 degrees, nearly, is in question. 
According to Edrisi, Ghana lies 37 journies from Germa, through 
Agadez, or Agadost. Germa, an ancient and ruined city of Fezzan, lies 
to the ESE of Mourzouk, about four journies.* The position of Germa 
therefore will be about lat. 27° 25' : Ion. 16° 20' E. Agadez in 25 of Edri- 
si's journies from Germa,t and is said to bear S by W, or SSW from the 
capital of Fezzan. + Again, Agadez is given at 48 caravan journies from 
Gadamis, which latter is 24 such journies in a southerly direction from 
Tunis.^ The road to Agadez makes a considerable angle, by passing 
through Tegerhy, situated 80 miles only, to the SW or WSW of Mour- 
zouk : II and hence the direct distance of 48 journies must undergo some 
diminution. The result places Agadez S by W 4: W from Mourzouk, 
479 G. miles distant ; which only exceeds by six miles the distance arising 
on the 25 journies from Germa : and its position will be at a few minutes 
above the parallel of 20 degrees, and a litde more than half a degree of 
longitude west of Tripoly. The position receives some further check, 
from the circumstance of Tegerhy being midway between Kabes and 
Agadez.** 
Ghana is 12 days of Edrisi's scale to the southward of Agadez, or about 
229 G. miles. tt It appears that Ghana lies somewhat to the east of the 
» Mr. Beaufoy's MSS. || Af, Assos. 1790, Q;_ p. 88 ; O. p. 133. 
•f Edrisi, p. 39. •* Af. Assoc. 1793, page 29, et stq. 
t Mr. Beaufoy's MSS. ff Edrisi, p. .39. 
^ Af. Assoc. 1793, p. 29. 
