270 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
that of M. Caillie^ there must be a very elevated moun- 
tain crest^ running from N. W. to S. E. and passing near 
the point of intersection of the two routes. 
The names of the countries traversed by M. Caillie, 
in the first part of his travels, deserve a particular exami- 
nation. According to the circumstantial description of 
the Baleya, it appears to me, that Major Laing has placed 
on his map a village of Beilia, w^here he ought to have 
marked and where in fact is, the country of Baleya. The 
Firia of the maps is the same with the Fryia or the Firya of 
M. Caillie ; the Sangaran is nearly where it has been placed 
upon the recent maps, but on both sides of the river. With 
respect to the Couranco, if M . Caillie was rightly informed, 
it extends considerably towards the N. W., whereas Ma- 
jor Laing confines it to the interval between the rivers 
Rokelle and Camaranca, in the south. This country borders 
it should seem on the Baleya and the Soulimana. The true 
source of the Dhioliba is in the Kissi, to the south of Cou- 
ranco, according to M. Caillie (or of the Soulimana, ac- 
cording to Major Laing). Thus the whole discrepancy be- 
tween the two travellers is reduced to the lengthening of 
the country of Couranco ; but, are the limits of these petty 
kingdoms well defined, and are the natives themselves ful- 
ly agreed as to frontiers which violence is perpetually 
changing ? On many maps the names of Sangala and Cou- 
ronia are to be found not far from Couranco and San- 
gara. I suspect they are doing double duty here, as in so 
many other instances in geography, either through the 
