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ceding maps, because, M'hen M. Mollien questioned the inha- 
bitants of this city on its distance from Sierra Leone, they unani- 
mously replied, that it was eleven days' journey on foot, and these 
eleven journeys can only be rated at five leagues each ; in fact, it 
is difficult to proceed farther in a country so mountainous as Fouta 
Diallon, especially travelling with a party : and we see from the 
narrative of Watt and Winterbottom, that to the W. and S. W. of 
Timbo this countr}' considerably approaches the coast. 
M. Mollien did not meet with the Shea or Chi, the butter-tree, 
in his route ; the Negroes whom he asked to show it to him, 
answered that it grew only to the east of the route which he pursued. 
In fact, Mungo Park first met with it three miles to the east of 
Sibikillim, a little before he arrived at Badou ; and M. Mollien, 
when nearest to this place, was sixteen leagues to the west of it. 
