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As a great number of the inhabitants of Fouta Diallon, whom 
M. Mollien consulted on the position of the sources of the Senegal, 
the Faleme, the Gambia, and the Rio Grande, agreed in what they 
told him, he naturally gave credit to their reports, since those 
sources were not far from the places where his informants resided. 
Their answers also corresponded with those of the inhabitants of the 
neighbouring countries. 
The Gambia, (Ba-Diman) and the Rio Grande, (Comba) 
spring from the same basin, situated amidst high mountains. On 
quitting this basin, these rivers pursue their course towards opposite 
points, each under a different name, and they both finally discharge 
themselves into the same sea, at the distance of fifty leagues from 
one another. On his return from Timbo, M. Mollien not only 
twice crossed the Rio Grande, but he very nearly followed the 
course of this river, which, checked by ramifications of mountains, 
forms numerous windings ; his route was partly parallel to that of 
Watt and Winterbottom. The Rio Grande, at its source, is 
named the Comba, and afterwards, when it has received the To- 
mine or Donzo, it assumes the appellation of Kabou ; hence the 
mistake, which has assigned to it the name of Donzo. 
It was impossible for M. Mollien to confound the Rio Grande 
with the Gambia. The latter, at its source, is called Bâ-Diman ; 
he had before crossed it, under that name, which is the same as 
that given to it much lower down by Mungo Park. 
On the other side of the mountains in which the Rio Grande 
and Gambia have their sources, are situated those of the Faleme, 
and of the Senegal^ but at some distance from each other, and sepa- 
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