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SIS, which alone afforded the prospect of raising 
them to the first rank among colonial establish- 
ments. Golberry also makes no secret of his 
feeling of national jealousy, that the English 
should have been the first to make so important 
a discovery, which would have fallen so much 
more naturally to the share of his own country- 
men, had they availed themselves of the oppor- 
tunities afibrded by their settlement on the Sene- 
gal. 
The English geographers were far from pos- 
sessing, at this period, the same intelligence and 
activity as those of France. The only person 
who seems to have taken any deep interest in the 
present question, was Francis Moore, the travel- 
ler. He had adopted, with enthusiastic zeal, the 
derivation of the Niger from the extremities of 
Africa, while, as an Englishman, he held the 
Gambia, the seat of the English setttlements, to 
be the main channel by which it entered the 
ocean. Upon this river, he finds all the princi- 
pal positions mentioned by Edrisi. Ulil is Joally, 
an island at the mouth of the river, whence its 
banks, it seems, are actually supplied with salt. 
Sala is Bur-salum, and Gana is Yani. Unfortun- 
ately there is no name which can be tortured into 
Wangara ; but this might arise from Europeans 
not having penetrated so high. These specula- 
tions were much discomposed, by the arrival of 
