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tions : and we must therefore conclude, that either these countries have more 
than one name, or have changed their names in the course of the century. 
On the whole, it cannot well be doubted that the adjustment of the south- 
ern route, to the northern, in this place, is tolerably exact; and it is indeed 
a matter of the first importance to the geography. One circumstance is very 
much in its favour : at Kirwanny on this route Mr. Park was told, that the 
course of the Gambia river lay three journies southward, or one journey 
within the boundary of Foota-Jallo : and Dr. Afzelius was informed, that 
the same river runs at the distance of four journies from the mountains 
which skirt the Rio Grande on the north-east. These notices accord per- 
fectly with the relative positions of Kirwanny, and the course of the Rio 
Grande, which are about 11 2 G. miles asunder, on the construction. 
This adjustment, moreover, goes as well to the proportioning of the lon- 
gitudinal distance, on the line between Kamalia and Woolli, by means 
of the course of the river Faleme, extended from a known point in the 
northern route. 
On Mr. Park's original map, I find 201 G. miles on that portion of the 
southern line, east of the Faleme river ; 181 on the west : whilst the respec- 
tive intervals on my construction, are 211, and 185. But Mr. Park ob- 
served, that there was a greater portion of distance to be travelled through, 
on his return, than he had expected. His reckoning was, according to the 
sea phrase, ahead of the ship : which was, no doubt, occasioned by his omit- 
ting to take the variation of the compass into the account, after he had lost 
his sextant at Jarra. 
It appears on the examination of his journal, that between the river 
Faleme and Baraconda, in Woolli (a few miles short of Medina), they em- 
ployed nine whole days, and part of a tenth ; a great part of which journey 
lay through the wilderness of Tenda and Simbani. Six of the days are 
remarked to be either long or very long : and one in particular was a very 
hard day's work. Allowing six miles for the fraction of the day, the nine 
whole ones require 19 G. miles of direct distance, each : and as the road 
diverged considerably from the direct line (to the southward, falling in with 
the Gambia pretty high up) they may be taken somewhat higher. The five 
