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sent map. A more enlarged, and particular map of Eantee, &c. 
would not be interesting to the public, but as it might be desirable 
to geographers, I shall keep it in view as a duty, and, at some 
future time, endeavor to add to the observations of latitude and 
longitude which have been already made on the coast. 
I may not conclude without acknowledging the guidance, and 
assistance, which Major Rennell's previous investigations have 
afforded me ; without impressing, that had not some sketches of 
the interior been collected by the industry of the emissaries of the 
African Association, and afterwards connected and formed into a 
general outline, blended with the feeble lights of the ancients, my 
enquiries would neither have been excited or directed ; and this 
present small contribution to our slender knowledge would have 
perished an embryo. When I reflect on the creative researches of 
the genius of D'Anville, and the acumen and erudition of Major 
Rennell, it is my greatest anxiety to make my deference in investi- 
gation, as manifest as the public duty which exacted the involuntary 
presumption ; and I cannot conclude more appropriately, than by 
addressing the latter in the expressive lines of Virgil : 
Nec calamis solum aequiparas sed voce magistrum 
Fortunate — tu nunc eris alter ab illo. 
Nos tamen hgec quocunque mode tibi nostra vicissim 
Dicemus." 
