APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
Illujirations of the Maps. 
In compiling the two maps which accompany this work, 
the writer has made ufe of his own obfervations in that 
part of it to which thofe obfervations had extended. For 
the remainder of the information exhibited in each, he has 
trufted to the report of the more intelligent natives, who 
having frequently traverfed the neighbouring countries, might 
be fuppofed in fome meafure qualified to defcribe what they 
had feen. Yet he has not ventured to lay down a fmgle pofi- 
tion which had not previoufly been confirmed by the diftin£t 
and concordant teftimony of at leaft three or four individuals. 
Even with this caftigation, it is unnecelTary to remark how 
impradicable is the tafk of approximating the bearings, from 
the oral teftimony of thofe who have no clear idea of bearings, 
and fcarcely know how to diftinguifh the eight principal points. 
Almoft equally difficult is it to give the face of a country, or 
an account of its productions, which the informant perhaps 
traverfed between deep and waking, or when too much occu- 
pied 
