CONTENTS. 
vii 
: : BOOK III. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS, AND GENERAL VIEWS 
OF AFRICA. 
CHAPTER I. 
HISTORICAL VIEW OF GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS FORMED 
RELATING TO AFRICA. 
Errors of early Geography — System of Herodotus. — 
Eratosthenes and Strabo. — Ptolemy. — The Arabians.—^ 
JModern Geographers during the Sixteenth and Seven- 
teenth Centuries, — Delisle and D'Anville. — Rennell, 
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CHAPTER H. 
HISTORICAL VIEW OF THEORIES RESPECTING THE COURSE 
AND TERMINATION OF THE NIGER. 
Herodotus. — Strabo, Pliny, and Mela — The Arabians. — 
Leo and the Portuguese. — Delisle and D'Anville. — 
Moore Major Rennell Reichard The Congo 
Hypothesis. — Another. — Captain Tuckey's Observa- 
tions, 406 
CHAPTER IH. 
GENERAL VIEW OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AFRICA, 
By Professor Jameson. 
Mineralogy : Primitive Rocks. — Secondary Rocks. — Vol- 
canic Rocks. — Alluvial Rocks. — Simple Minerals found 
