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" The following considerations have induced Mr. Park 
to think that the Congo will be found to be the termination 
of the Niger. 
" 1st. The total ignorance of all the inhabitants of 
North Africa respecting the termination of that river. If 
the Niger ended any where in North Africa, it is difficult to 
conceive how the inhabitants should be so totally ignorant 
of it ; and why they should so generally describe it as 
running to the Nile, to the end of the world, and in fact to 
a country with which they are unacquainted. 
2dly. In Mr. Horneman's Journal the Niger is de- 
scribed as flowing eastwards into Bornou, where it takes 
the name of Zad. The breadth of the Zad was given him 
for one mile, and he was told that it flowed towards the 
Egyptian Nile, through the land of the Heathens.^ The 
course here given is directly towards the Congo. Zad is 
the name of the Congo at its mouth, and it is the name of 
the Congo for at least six hundred and fifty miles inland. 
" 3dly. The river of Dar KvUa mentioned by Mr. 
Browne-j- is generally supposed to be the Niger ; or at least 
to have a communication with that river. Now this is 
exactly the course the Niger ought to take in order to join 
the Congo. 
" 4th!y. The quantity of water discharged into the 
Atlantic by the Congo cannot be accounted for on any other 
known principle, but that it is the termination of the Niger. 
If the Coogo derived its waters entirely from the south side 
of the mountains which are supposed to form the Belt of 
* Proceedings of African Association. Vol. II. p. 201. 
t Browne's Travels, 2d edit. 4to. p. 354. 
