CHAPTER I. 
Proceedings of the AJfociatton from the Time of its Efahlifj- 
ment, to that of the Departure of Mr. Led yard. 
The AlTociation for Promoting the Difcovery of the Interior 
Regions of Africa was formed on the 9th of June, in the year 
1788 ; and on the fame day a Committee of its Members was 
inverted with the direction of its Funds, the management of 
its Correfpondence, and the choice of the perfons to whom the 
Geographical million lliould be affigned. 
Naturally anxious for the fpeedy attainment of the impor- 
tant objea: thus recommended to their care, an objea made 
doubly interefling by the confideration of its having engaged 
the attention, and baffled the refearches of the moft inquifitive 
and 
