GEOGRAPHICAL 
afundcr. See Gt-o^. Nubienfis, -p. ^g- Ghanah was in the twelfth 
century a city of the firfl: confequence. Wangara and Kanenij 
were alfo known to Edrifi. : 
The rh er known to Europeans by the name of Niger, 
runs on the South of the kingdom of Caflina, in its courfe 
towards TombuSou; and if the report which Ben AUi heard 
in that town, may be credited, it is afterwards loft in the fands 
on the South of the country of Tombuftou, In the Map, only 
the known part of its courfe is marked by a line ; and the fup- 
pofitious part by dots. It may be proper to obferve, that the 
Africans have two names for this river ; that is, Neel il Abeed, 
or River of the Negros ; and Neel il Kibeer, or the Great 
River. They alfo term the Nile, (that is, the Egyptian Ri- 
ver) Neel Shem: fo that the term Neel, from whence our 
Nile, is nothing more than the appellative of River; like Gan- 
ges, or SiNDE. 
From Caflma the road leads Weftward to the Kingdom of 
G ON J AH, ninety-feven days journey from the former. Gonj'ab, is, 
from circumftamces, the Conche of M. D' Anville, and the Gongs 
of M. Delifle ; and the limilitude of names, however great, is 
the leail proof it : for the Itinerary of the Shereef Imhammej) 
fays. 
