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From Agadez to Caflina is feventeen days ; which, at fifteen 
miles per day, give a diftance of two hundred and fifty-five 
miles. The bearing; is faid to be South South Weil. Cafli- 
na, then, will Hand in or about the latitude of 16'^ 20' North, 
and about a degree and half Weft from Trirpoli. 
D'Anville's Cajfeenah (undoubtedly meant for Caflina) is 
placed about thirty-feven miles to the North Well of the pofi- 
tion afTumed in the accompanying Map ; whence I confider 
mine as a near approximatioa, efpecially as the diftance from 
Mefurata is upwards of nine hundred and feventv miles, 
Caihna may be regarded as the central kingdom of th^ great 
body of Africa; and as a part of the region named Soudan, of 
which at prefent but fevf particulars are known, 
Ghanah, or Ghimiah, is placed, in refpc8: of CaPniiaj accord- 
ing to M. D' Anville's Map, It does not appccU* Vv'hether he had 
any authority for placing it ninety miles to the North Eaft of 
Caflina: but its pofition, in refpe<9: of the City of Nuabia, (an- 
tiently Meroe, on the Nile) is on the authority of Edrifi. Thi.^ 
Author aifo allows twelve days between Agadez and Ghanah : 
and by my conftrudion, they are two hundred and eight miles 
afunder. 
