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a place called Oualet^ at a great distance from the Walet 
of Mungo Park, and another of the name of Sala, which 
confirms the testimony of Arabic writers ; in the south 
the towns of Teute, Cagny, or Canny, and Koung, fifteen 
days and more south of Time, that is to say, near the 
seventh degree. This account rectifies our notions of the 
kingdoms or states east of Fouta-Dhialon, and distinctly 
points out the mountainous tracts, the sandy plains, and 
the fertile territories enriched by numerous rivers. 
We were before uncertain about the district of 
Bour^ ; the new notes enable us to give it on the maps 
very nearly its true site. 
The large towns in which he resided, such as Tim- 
buctoo, Fez,* Djenne, Kankan, are very minutely de- 
scribed, and were I not unwilling to lengthen this paper, 
it would be easy to shew how much he has added in this 
respect to our information, and also how many false and 
exaggerated ideas he has corrected : this is a merit for 
which we ought to give him double credit ; since he is, 
perhaps, of all travellers the one who has dissipated 
the greatest number of illusions. Sound minds will feel 
the more grateful to him in proportion to the currency 
formerly gained by these exaggerations. The lapse of 
* See the description of this city in Mr, Jackson's work, quoted 
above, and that of Timbuctoo, in the Travels of Robert Adams and 
of Riley, in Leo Africanus, and in the Recherches of M. Walcke- 
naer, Sec, 
