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issues from this lake, and resumes the form of a beautiful and deep 
river, such as it appears at the village of Baraconda. Canoes can 
proceed from Baraconda to the reedy lake, hut barks cannot, even 
in the season when the water is highest, on account of a ridge of 
rocks, which borders the whole river between these two places, and 
which leaves only very narrow channels, that scarcely admit the 
passage of a canoe, although deep enough to carry a bark."^-^ 
D'Anville probably did not consider this information sufficiently 
positive to mark this junction in any of the maps with which he 
enriched the work of Father Labat ; nor in those which he published 
separately ; it is indicated only in the map constructed by Laborde 
in 1791, for the travels of M. Brisson. We there see these words, 
communication soupçonnée, written along a dotted line, each of the 
extremities of which ends in an affluence of one of these rivers, 
and which in its course, passes through a lake called Niert ; the new 
map confirms this circumstance, which before rested only on con- 
jecture. 
The inhabitants of Timbo informed M. Mollien, that the source 
of the Dialli-Ba, which they knew very well by this name, was 
situated in the mountains that separate Kouranco from Soliman, 
and that it was eleven days' journey from that of the Senegal, and 
eight from their city. It is to be hoped, that some traveller, more 
fortunate than his predecessors, will remove the obscurity which 
still envelopes this important point of geography. 
Lastly, Timbo is placed more to the west than in the pre- 
* Relation de l\lfriquc occidentale, t Z. p. 161. 
