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geographic ones: confequently the thirty-one days give five 
hundred and eighty-feven miles. Matthan is not reported in 
the Itinerary; but Kanem is, both as Province and a capital City: 
iind the pofition of the latter according to my conftruftion, is 
feven hundred miles from Nuabia. Whether the error lies on 
the fide of Edrifi, or the Shereef ; or arifes from the faulty por- 
tion of Nuabia in D'Anville, cannot eaiily be difcQvered^ 
. Een Alii travelled the road between Bornou and Alexandria; 
but was too much indifpofed to make any obfervations, other- 
wife than that the Kingdom of Bornou extends fifteen days 
journey, or about two hundred and thirty miles, in that direc- 
tion. This was particularly unfortunate ; for whichfoever route 
he went, he mufi have croffed fome one or more of the Oases ; 
and of courfe fome important matter would have been added to 
the Map. -k4 ^^^rU" - - ' ■ ^ 
The only route of importance that remains to be difcuffed, 
as that from Fezzan orMourzouk, to Cairo, leading to Mecca ; for, - 
at Mourzouk the Mahomedans from the fouthern and wefternV 
parts of Africa, who intend to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, ' 
aflemble at the proper feafon, as at a common point of deparr 
ture. The route to Cairo, which requires fifty-three days to 
V 7 . . atchieve 
