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name, and it will at least be allowed that so respectable a character 
as De Lisle, would neither have laid down the branch from the 
Niger (for it is as likely to be so in the absence of explanation, as 
a river running into it) without some authority, nor have invented 
the name Gambarou : and it will also be allowed, that he must 
have heard of it as being a very large river, to have confounded it 
with the Niger. De Lisle has preserved most of the names reported 
to nie, more closely than any other geographer.* In the judicious 
compendium of Mr. Murray, I observe the following note. " It is 
but justice to D'Anville to say, that in his map of central Africa, 
inserted in the 26th volume of the Academie des Inscriptions, he 
has represented a river passing close to Timbuctoo, running S.W., 
and falling into the Niger. This delineation has not been copied by 
othiers, but it is not the less probable that that excellent geographer 
may have had positive information on which to found it."' Now, 
I may presume, this is only recorded in delineation, and not 
noticed by D'Anville in the text, or, his authority would have 
appeared. I shall be indulged in such a conjecture, when it is 
* " No one who compares the maps of De Lisle and D'Anville with the materials 
then published, can doubt the excellent means of information with which they must have 
been supplied both by government, and by private individuals." Murray. 
We find a remarkable instance of De Lisle's accuracy in Major Rennell's construction 
of the geography of Mr. Horneman''s expedition. " Mr. Horneman was informed that 
there are 101 inhabited places in Fezzan." It is remarkable that this is precisely the 
number stated in M. Dehsle's map of Africa, drawn in 1707 ; and, according to Mr. 
Beaufoy's informant, there are nearly 100. 
I have since found an older authority for the name Gamharoo, and which also shews 
that the name Quolla and its connection with the Gambaroo, have not been wholly 
unknown hitherto. It is in the L'Afrique de Marmol, livre viii. chap. 3. " Cest une 
chose estrange que ce fleuve venant de si loin, car Ptolom^e le fait venir du lac Quelo- 
nide, et de celui de Nuba, il n'entraine pas tant d'eaux par ce co^te-la, et la mar^e ne 
monte pas si avant, que par Vautre bras que Von appelle Gamber."" One may almost 
fancy Quolla and Quellonide to have been derived from the Chalonides of Ptolemy. 
