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in more than one place,* that they are 40 leagues asunder ; but as his Map 
(in Vol. iv. p. 92.) has less than 12 leagues; and as M. P. D. also says 
(p. 78.) 12 leagues: and as, moreover, the King of Kasson's residence is 
said to be midway between the two falls; and that residence appearing to 
be Kooniakarry, a place visited by Mr. Park; and which is no more than 
about 22' from the lower fall, and at 13' distant from the north bank of the 
river; it cannot well be otherwise than that the two falls are within 30 G. 
miles of each other. And hence it may be concluded, that quatorze and 
not quarante, was in the original manuscript. 
The distance between Kooniakarry and the Senegal river, 13 miles, 
points to a WNW course, or thereabouts, of the river between the falls; 
not much different from its general course, lower down. But as the Ba-fing, 
or principal arm of this river, must run almost directly to the north, from 
the place where Mr. Park crossed it, in Jallonkadoo, it is highly probable, 
that the two great branches unite at no great distance above the upper fall; 
for the same ridge of mountains that occasions the fall, may, perhaps, occa- 
sion a junction of the different streams above it. 
These falls are said by Labat to be from 30 to 40 toises perpendicular ; 
or 180 to 240 French feet. We must recollect that P. Hinnepen states the 
fall of Niagara at 600 feet, which subsequent accounts have reduced to 
I50.t The reader will, however, find very curious descriptions of these 
falls, and of the river itself, in Labat, Vol. ii. p. 156, 160. 
* Vol. ii. p. 156. Vol. iii. 290 and 358. 
f See Ellicott's Letter in Europ. Mag. Vol. xxiv. 
