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Addah, 12 miles. Two and a half from Ningo is a croom called 
Lai, the inhabitants of which have removed, some to Addah, some 
to Ningo : the English had a factory here, long gone to ruin. One 
mile west of the Volta, there was formerly a croom called Foutchi." 
RecJioning four English miles to one Danish or Dutch, Addah 
would be 96 miles from Christiansburg, but Meredith makes it but 
67, therefore we will take the medium and call it 8?. From the 
Tolta to Cape St. Paul's is five leagues by sea, according to Dalzel, 
and 15 miles by land, according to Norris's map of Dahomey and 
its environs. Quitta, about 12 miles from it (according to Norris) 
by the observation made in H. M. S. Argo in 1802, is in 5° 45' N. 
and 1° 29' 30" E. by chronometer. Accra lies, according to the 
Commissioners, in 10' W. Taking the medium between Isert and 
Meredith, Christiansburg Castle, about three miles eastward of the 
English fort, is 87 from Addah, but as that place is six miles from 
the mouth of the Volta, we will call it 81: allowing one mile for 
the breadth of the river and 18 miles for the difference of longitude 
between it and Quitta, (according to Norris,) the distance from 
English Accra to Quitta will be 103 B. miles, which being equal 
to 89 geographical miles, place Quitta in 1" 19' E. instead of 
1** 29' 30" as by the observation of the Argo, and that supposing 
the whole distance to be made good horizontally, which is impos- 
sible. Wherefore I should think Isert, who had travelled it, was 
more likely to be correct in making the distance from Christiansburg 
to Addah 96 miles, than Meredith in calling it 67- 
Norris's observation^ placing Cape St. Paul's in 5°52'N., I 
conceive to be incorrect, as that of the Argo must be preferred, 
which places Quitta in 5° 42' N., instead of 6° 2'N., as in Norris's 
map. This should not have escaped Mr. DalzeFs notice in the 
" New Sailing Directions," where both observations are cited in 
the same page, without any remark on the inconsistency, for Quitta 
