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between them, or three miles and quarter per day. Whether 
the truth lie between the obfervation of Mr. Bruce and the 
conjecture of D'Anville, or whether the former be well efta- 
bliflied, and the length of each day's march may be accounted 
for from the ftraitnefs and facility of the road, fome future 
occafion muft determine. One circumftance would feem clear, 
viz. the diftance between the city Sennaar^ and the Bahr-el- 
abiad, which the repeated and unvaried teftimonies of the 
natives relatively to the interval of three, or three and half 
days, leave no room to doubt, have hitherto been placed much 
too far apart. 
The road from Wara to Dar Kulla exhibits a remarkable 
coincidence as to the number of rivers and lakes which it paffes, 
with that part of Major Rennell's laft general map of Northern 
Africa, which forms what he confiders as the alluvies of that 
portion of the continent, though it be neither in the fame latitude 
nor longitude. 
Of thefe various ftreams little defcription was obtained. The 
country they flow through is faid to be great part of the year 
w^et and marfhy ; the heat is exceflive, and the people remark 
that there is no winter. The courfe of the rivers, if rightly 
given, is for the moft part from E, to W. 
The river called Bahr MiJJelad is faid to be a confiderable 
one. It's fource is not defcribed, but appears to be not far 
diftant from the fuppofed fite of the copper mines. Thofe who 
frequent this road, ordinarily pafs two years from the time of 
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