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issues one of the sources of the Senegal. The»® ^ 
are intersected by a ridge of very high mounta''^ 
These two rivers have, like the^Nile, their 
which overspread the whole of the fiat country 
They begin and cease much about die saine ^ 
latter overflows ; but the salutaiy effects eXP 
Egypt are not to be found here ; for, instead ° , jr ‘ a 
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plenty, diseases, famine, and death, follow n> ui;li ,. 
The soil thrown up by the Senegal, becomes, - 
indolence of the savage wanderers who occupl .j.* V , 
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useless to any agricultural purpose ; and the c 
untilled, produces from its luxuriance great ff 
rank and noxious herbage, furnisliing a con'’®^^^^,|[ J’.ji 
sitory for venomous insects and reptiles, 
beasts of prey. When the waters of these 
their channels, the humidity and heat which PJ 
es of vasr_ji 
a pestilenfud taint; while the carc.ases 01 rpf 
animals, swept away by the inundation, her jj 1; 
and spread around a loathsome and baneful 
the vegetation itself is charged with 
among the plants which grow on the banks of ^ 
some diffuse an insuiferable and deleterious odo 
THE GAMBIA. 
This river lies to the south of the Senegal 
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nearly the same direction. It has a very 
and rapid course, and discharges itself into the 
tiiirtcen degrees of north latitude. 
EUROPEAN RIVERS. 
THE VOLGA. 
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In surveying the grand and beneficial assenib » 
dispersed over the countries of Europe, the / ^ Vofl jf 
itself as the most extensive in its course, hea’n 
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thousand miles in length. Having passed thi® 
inoubciiiLi iiitius ui iL.uguit xuving passcu ** ^ ,^{j , 
ritories of Russia, it enters Asia in 48 dcgtc'^’^;isp^ii/ 
north latitude, discharging its waters into 
by various channels, below Astracan, and pf^^ 
Waijdf at the place where it disembogues. 
