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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-~tbe Foulahs, the Leucastbiopes of the An- 
cients. 
T o our view, North Africa appears to be composed of three distinct parts 
or members. The first and smallest is a fertile region along the Mediter- 
ranean, lying opposite to Spain, France, and Italy (commonly distinguished 
by the name of Barbary) ; and which, could we suppose the western bason 
of the Mediterranean to have once been dry land, (bating a lake or reci- 
pient for the surrounding rivers), might be regarded as a part of Europe; as 
posessing much more of the European, than the African character. 
The second part is what may be deemed the 'body of North Africa, 
comprized between the Red Sea, and Cape Verd, on the east and west; 
and having the Great Desert (or Sahara ) and its members, on the north; 
the Ethiopic ocean, and South Africa, on the opposite side. The prominent 
feature of this immense region, is a vast belt of elevated land, of great 
breadth, often swelling into lofty mountains, and running generally from 
west to east, about the tenth degree of latitude. Its western extremity seems 
to be C. Verd; the mountains of Abyssinia, the eastern. To the north, its 
ramifications are neither numerous nor extensive, if we except the elevated 
tract which turns the Nile to the northward, beyond Abyssinia. Towards the 
south, no particulars are known, save that a multitude of rivers, some of 
them very large, descend from that side, and join the Atlantic and Ethiopic 
seas, from the Rio Grande on the west, to Cape Lopez on the east ; proving 
incontestably that by far the greatest proportion of rain water falls on that 
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