444 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
of the difficulty. Park and his editors having fallen 
into the error of imagining Timbuctoo much more 
south than it really is, have made a corresponding 
change in the position of Oualet : in short, the place 
noticed by M. Caillie is situated relatively to Tim- 
huctoo, very nearly as it is placed in the second map 
of the English traveller, and both must be carried 
much farther north than they there appear. 
It vrould be easy to extend these geographical remarks 
by a number of scientific deductions, more or less in- 
teresting to some readers; but it is time to bring this 
volume to a close, and in conclusion to claim the public 
indulgence in behalf of a work hastily drawn up, and 
whose only substantial recommendation to attention is the 
importance of its subject, and the influence which the dis- 
covery itself must sooner or later exercise over future 
enterprizes.* 
* Consult the interesting work entitled Naufrage du brig fran^ais 
la Sophie, par M. Charles Cochelet, (Paris, 1821, in 8vo) where the 
author affirms that Sidi-Hamet did not visit Timbuctoo, and raises 
doubts upon the travels of Adams. (Tom. 2, chap. XV.) 
