266 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
kalita ; it is the same, according to the inhabitants, with 
the Rio-Nunez; this stream, which flows to the north, 
would, in this case, be only the origin or principal tribu- 
tary of the Rio-Nunez. 
Other rivulets or rivers, as the Bangala, the Dou- 
linca, and the Kakiriman, a large river in the neighbour- 
hood of the high mountains of Antegua, on the contrary 
flow towards the south. The soil is chiefly composed of 
granite in this district and beyond it : the mountains are 
very high, steep and pointed ; chains still increasing in 
elevation succeed each other ; and there are among them 
mountains two thousand feet in height. All this country, 
bordering on the Fouta-Dhialon, presents an accumulation 
of obstacles, which are with difiiculty surmounted; and 
yet men and even women, with heavy loads upon their 
heads, are continually traversing it. One of these moun- 
tains, the Touma, forms the limit between the Tenanka 
and the Fouta, and beyond it are the cataracts of the 
Cocoulo, a large and very rapid river. Thence we pro- 
ceed to the Bafing, the chief arm of the Senegal: it 
appears that its source is to the west of Timbo, and that 
its course is to the west and north, (and not to the east) ; 
this, at least, is the inference I draw from the new itine- 
rary; and the north-easterly course of the Tankisso, 
which belonged to the bason of the Dhioliba, confirms 
this opinion.* 
* It appears to me that M. Dufour, in his estimable work on 
Senegambia, restricts himself too scrupulously to the details of M* 
Mollien's route, which nevertheless are very valuable. 
