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CONTENTS. 
APPENDIX. 
CHAPTER I. 
Concerning the Ideas entertained by the Ancient Geographers, as zvell as the Moderns, 
down to the Times of Deiisle and D'Anville, respecting the Course of the River 
Niger. ~ « page iii 
CHAPTER m 
Concerning the Geographical Discoveries of Mr. Park. - p. xiii 
CHAPTER III. 
Construction of the Geography of Mr. Park's Expedition into Africa. p. xxii 
CHAPTER IV. 
The Construction of the Geography continued. - p. xxxvi 
CHAPTER V. 
Construction of the New Map of North Africa. — New Arrangement of the Course of 
the Nile. — Its distant Fountain yet unexplored by Europeans. — A central Position 
in Africa, determined. — Edrisi's Line of Distance, consistent. — Errors of Lea. 
p.li 
CHAPTER VI, 
The Subject continued — Course of the River Niger, at large — has no Communication 
with the Nile — Ptolemy's Description of it consistent. - p. lxx 
CHAPTER VII. 
Observations on the physical and political Geography of North Africa — Naturally 
divisible into three Parts — Productive in Gold — Boundary of the Moors and 
Negroes— the Foulahs, the Leucasthiopes of the Ancients. - p. lxxxii 
