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was added to the Senegal, and, like it, made to 
flow westward. This error was never discovered 
till the journey of Park. 
These discoveries were generally adopted by 
geographers of the first rank, and passed into all 
the good maps of Africa. Yet so slow is the pro- 
gress of knowledge, that in 17*56, Adanson, though 
a man of science, and in 17^7* Demanet, who 
had resided for some years at Senegal, adhere to 
the old hypothesis, use indiscriminately the terms 
Senegal and Niger, and seem unconscious that any 
one had ever represented them as different streams. 
Golberry, even after the performance of Park's 
journey, affects to consider the point as not per- 
fectly ascertained. The truth is, that all who 
placed their ambition in the extension of these 
settlements, leaned to this hypothesis, which alone 
afforded the prospect of raising them to the first 
rank among colonial establishments. Golberry al- 
so makes no secret of his feeling of national jea- 
lousy, that the English should have been the first 
to make so important a discovery, which would 
have fallen so much more naturally to the share of 
his own countrymen, had they availed themselves 
of the opportunities afforded by their settlement 
on the Senegal. 
The English geographers were far from possess- 
ing, at this period, the same intelligence and acti- 
vity as those of France. The only person who 
