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would then correspond well with Tychyt, celebrated for its 
salt-mines; it is true however that the Arabian geo- 
grapher seems to place Oulil upon the sea itself.* 
With respect to Ghana^ which is thought to answer 
to Kano^ visited by the last English travellers, its position 
in el-Edricy appears too much towards the west ; unless 
these travellers (as has been already suspected) have placed 
Kano and other points of the Soudan between Bornou 
and Saccatoo, too far to the east. 
Above two centuries before el-Edricy, Ebn-Haukal, 
another not less esteemed Arabian writer, had fixed the 
relative positions of Sidjilmassa, Oulil, and Ghana ; these 
equally agree with the itinerary of our traveller ; every well 
informed reader will inquire whether the same agreement 
exists with the marches of the celebrated Ben-Batouta. 
His travels are known by the fragments which Messrs. 
Kosegarten and Burckhardt have translated from the ex- 
tract given by el-Bilouni.f 
It is known that, in 1352, Ben-Batouta quitted Sid- 
jilmessa for Timbuctoo and central Africa : in twenty- 
* Insula verb Ulil in mare sita est, etc. Geograph. Nubiens p. 7. But 
bahr signifies both river and sea. 
t This same extract more complete has just been published in an 
English translation by Mr. S. Lee, under the title of Travels of Ibn 
Batuta, etc. London, 1829. — During my abode at Cairo, I heard men- 
tion of a complete manuscript, the work of Ben-Batouta, deposited in 
the library of the Mosque el-Azhar. 
