278 REMARKS ON TRAVELS 
long ago suggested in memorials submitted to govern- 
ment^ pointing out its advantages. The documents of 
M. Caillie confirm the possibility of the scheme at the 
present time. He thinks that from this point it is eight 
or ten days' journey to the nearest point of the Senegal. 
Now, it appears, from the map, that, by ascending the 
Bafing, as far as thirty leagues above the first cataract of 
Felou, we should be seventy leagues in a direct line from 
Bamakou, which agrees very well with what has gone 
before 5 this, however, is not the place for examining that 
question. 
