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placed ; especially as to matters of detail, or such facts as require to be stated 
with any degree of exactness. Considering that Mr. Jackson's information 
was obtained from this source, the very minuteness and apparent precision of 
his account, are circumstances highly unfavourable to its authenticity. 
With reference to the internal geography of Africa, the writer may take 
this opportunity of observing, that next to the African Association, to whom 
we are indebted for almost all the authentic information which we possess 
upon this subject,* considerable praise is due to the Sierra Leone Company; 
under whose auspices, during the time they were in possession of that colony, 
several important journies into the interior were judiciously undertaken and 
successfully executed. Among these may be mentioned an expedition in 
1794 by Mr. Watt and Mr. Winterbottom (being a land journey of near five 
hundred miles, in going and returning by different routes) to Laby and 
Teembo, both of them considerable towns, and the latter the capital of the 
Foulah country. Tombuctoo appeared, from the enquiries made by the 
travellers, to be well known at both those places; and the communication 
with that city from Laby, though it was spoken of as a journey of four moons, 
was represented to be open, and they were furnished with many particulars 
of the route. Sliorlly afterwards, in consequence perhaps of this information, 
a project was formed at Sierra Leone of sending out a mission to Tombuctoo; 
but Mr. Watt, who was to have undertaken the journey, died ; and the 
invasion of the colony by the French in September 1794, together with the 
destruction which followed, seems to have put a stop to expeditions of this 
nature. 
The editor has been favoured by Mr. Macaulay, late Secretary of the Sierra 
Leone Company and formerly Governor of the Colony, with a sight of the 
Journals of the expedition to Teembo as well as of some other missions 
from Sierra Leone of inferior importance. They do great credit to the 
writers (especially the Journal to Teembo) and contain many valuable and 
interesting particulars; several of which have been given to the public in the 
Reports of the Sierra Leone Company, and in Dr. Winterbottom's judicious 
account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of that colony. But 
there is still room for a compilation or selection from these Journals, which, 
if well executed, would be an instructive and interesting publication. 
* The valuable discoveries of the late Mr. Brovene (whose death must be lamented as a 
public loss) form an exception to this general remark; but perhaps the only exception. 
