408 THEORIES RESPECTING THE NIGERi 
flowing westward, and falling into the ocean. %d 9 
The Niger, flowing eastward, and terminating, as 
he supposes, at the lake of Reghebil in Wangara. 
3d, Another river, still farther east, and flowing 
in the opposite direction to the Niger. Although 
I incline to think D' Anvil le radically correct as to 
the existence of this last river, yet he runs into a 
manifest error, when he makes it at once the Gir 
of Ptolemy, the river of Bornou, and the Nile of 
the Negroes of Edrisi. The last is clearly the 
same river as the Niger, upon which, in fact, he 
himself has placed all the positions which Edrisi 
placed on the Nile of the Negroes. The main 
point, however, is the separation of the Senegal 
and Niger, and the eastern course of the latter. 
Excellent, certainly, must have been the informa- 
tion upon which Delisle and D'Anville made this 
construction, since Labat, who collected all the 
narratives of travellers in this part of Africa, de- 
clares himself unable to determine from what 
sources it was drawn. In the detail, however, a 
capital error was committed. The point of sepa- 
ration was made at the lake Dibbie, called by them 
Maberia, which, for this purpose, was split into two 
lakes, from one of which flowed the Niger east- 
ward, and from the other the Senegal westward. 
The consequence is, that all that part of the Niger 
which flows through Bambarra, which was tra- 
velled by Park, or accurately known to Europeans, 
