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boats necnliar to the Nile, with their large 
fading sails, were pnssing up and down the river 
'luit t!ic spot, we disniissed our guides, and re - 
time contemplating the delightful picture, 
‘'fsceuding on foot, clo.se by the superb mosque 
> V },^'|^"‘ltir, we continued our walk along the banks 
through gardens richer than imagination can 
vHts f the shade of enormous overhanging 
sycamore and fig-trees, amidst boAvers of roses, 
°''settj K‘'Wt's of date, citron, lime, and banana trees. 
Jhi. , TIIK SKNEGAI.. 
^ lo 1} ^ 
V^‘ tins is the most remarkable river in 
Okitjj its rise from the Western declivity of the 
\ or Caipbas, in iburtecn degrees of 
\s ■ p ly on the meridian of GreenAvich. 
” '■lecUvity of these- mountains tho Niger 
Vki()i, ’ ^tid niny, therefore, he comprehended in this 
V. the Africans navigate both these rivers ; and, 
^^'aracts 
t- Itts 
ats occur in the former, cany their goods 
is carried on bt' small A^'essels as high as 
4 
!%i,? Senegal, two hundred and eighty 
?’■ Sti • tMoulh, at which it is extremely rapi^ 
,’kill K *'^’*^^'-1136 body of water being confined Avithin 
K ^ l<?agtie. There is also at tire 
' p!,’, renders the pa.ssage veiy difficult and 
bi tho rainy season, Avhen the prodi- 
-tlf'^to;. b>o ]-iye,.^ and die south-west Avinds, being 
course, raise waves of so prodigious a 
an^' clashing resembles the shock of 
3fu said to be so furious as occasionally 
PTaviiig crossed tlic 
* ’be stoutest ships, 
in j‘ ”nd gently-gliding river is entered, four 
v krt to Fb- It takes a western course, tending 
Attr’ nortliAvard, through sixteen degrees of 
tl *Vl^”'lrpa’ its bendings, extends upwards of 
^NV^'tteg3|‘”bes. 
Om ’ but supposed to be a continuation of 
is now tlaought that the latter discharges 
°Uter 1 u ^ ^“*^6 not more than sixty miles dist;mt 
■’ke of great depili, called Maberia, whence 
