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of Greenwich ; but, as will be hereafter shewn, when corrected, i° 24' west. 
Here, then, terminates his journey eastward, at a point somewhat more than 
16 degrees east of Cape Verd, and precisely in the same parallel. The line 
of distance arising from this difference of longitude is about 941 G. miles, 
or 1090 British, within the western extremity of Africa; a point which, 
although short by 200 miles of the desired station, Tombuctoo, the attain- 
ment of which would unquestionably have been attended with great eclat, 
was yet far beyond what any other European, whose travels have been 
communicated to the European world, had ever reached.* 
* It may not be known to the generality of readers, that, in the former part of this 
century, Tombuctoo was as much the object of geographical research amongst the 
French, as it has been of late with the English. D'Anville was particularly anxious 
about it, as may be seen in the Mem. of the Academy of Inscrip. Vol. xxvi. p. 73, 
