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ADVERTISEMENT. 
tive of the attempts made by the English to pene^ 
trate into the interior by the route of the Gambia, 
A complete view is thus exhibited of the pro- 
gress of English navigation to this part of the 
world. As the chapter on English discoveries 
became thus much prior in chronological order to 
that on French discoveries, the arrangement of 
the two has been transposed. The valuable narra- 
tive of the expedition to the Congo has been 
analyzed as fully as space would permit ; and a 
series of interesting notices in the Quarterly Re- 
view have enabled some account to be given of 
the researches of M. Belzoni in Egypt, of the 
expedition to Ashantee, and of the plans now on 
foot for exploring Africa. To make room for 
these additions, without too much increasing the 
bulk of the work, a few passages have been 
omitted, which were either of secondary impor- 
tance, or have been superseded by later infor- 
mation. 
