CHAPTER XII. 
ConJiruBion of the Map of Africa. 
That the Geography of Africa has made a flower progrefs 
towards improvement than that of every other part of the world, 
during the laft, and the prefent century, is to be attributed 
more to natural caufes, than to any abfolute want of attention 
on the part of Geographers. Formed by the Creator, with a 
contour and furface totally unlike the other Continents, its in- 
terior parts elude all nautic refearch ; whilft the wars and com- 
merce in which Europeans have taken part, have been confined 
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