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general levels of the countries, near the sources of the great rivers are thus 
distributed. 
Between the countries of Bondou and Neola on the west, Bambara and 
Kaarta on the east, the country forms a very elevated level, falling rapidly 
to the eastward; but only by degrees, to the westward: and narrowing in 
breadth, from 330 miles in the south (in the line between Bambara and 
Neola) to the narrow space of 60 or 70 in the north, between Kaarta and 
Kajaaga; and probably diminishing to nothing, as it advances into the 
Great Desert-, thus forming a great triangular space, whose vertex is on 
the north of the little kingdom of Kasson. This vast upland tract is divided 
into other degrees of level, of which the highest comprizes the eastern and 
largest part of the whole. The eastern boundary of this particular level, 
is, of course, that of the upper level, generally, in the part where it over- 
looks Kaarta and Bambara: and its termination, in the opposite quarter, 
is at a great descent, west of the principal branch of the Senegal river, in 
Woradoo ; from which place, the edge of it may be conceived to run 
northward, to join another descent of the same kind, which forms the falls 
of Govinea, over which the great body of the Senegal river is precipitated, 
from this upper level, to the intermediate one. 
The upper level contains the political divisions of Manding, Jallonkadu, 
Fooladu, Kasson, Gadou, and some other smaller states. And the second, 
or intermediate level, contains Bambouk, Konkadoo, Satadoo, Dentila, and 
some others ; and is bounded on the south-west, by the great slope of coun- 
try at Kirwanney, where the waters first begin to flow towards the west. 
On the north-west it is bounded by the great descent which forms the second 
or lower fall of the Senegal river, named F'low. This fall is about 30 miles 
below Govinea, 48 above Fort St. Joseph : and here the river being ar- 
rived at the lowest level of the country, continues navigable with little in- 
terruption to the sea.* The Faleme river of course, must run on a far 
lower level than the other heads of the Senegal river. 
The Gambia has a small impediment to its navigation at Baraconda, in 
the country of Wooli ; but although this is usually termed a fall, Mr. Park 
• Labat, Vol. ii. p. 172. See his description of the navigation 
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