EMIGRANT NATIONS. 
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We are not therefore surprised, on comparing the 
littoral inhabitants of Western Africa, to find the 
proofs of their former connexion but faintly discern- 
unable to consult, until we had put together materials from other 
sources, yet we have thought it due to that distinguished and learned 
traveller, to substitute the following large extract, which explains so 
clearly the causes of the migration to the south and west. 
“ The Ashantees and their neighbours, must have again been 
disturbed from time to time, by the several emigrations of the nations 
of the Mediterranean, whom Buache, in his researches for the con- 
struction of a map of Africa for Ptolemy, has at once discovered by 
the identity of the names, in the neighbourhood of the Mediterranean, 
and south of the Niger. The Mimaces, for instance, are laid down by 
Ptolemy, a little south of Tripoli ; and again, a little west of the 
modern Yarriba. The Nabatharas close behind Algiers, and also 
where Dahomey now exists. The Dolopes in the present dominion 
of Tripoli, and again where we expect to find the Negro Kingdom 
of Kulba. Tlie Blenimyi in three places : on the Arabian Gulf, near 
Rees Ageeg ; on the eastern frontier of Abyssinia ; and south of the 
Equator, a little above the track of the traders from Loango to Nime- 
amay. The Astacures are found, in Ptolemy, on the confines of 
Tripoli, and again south of the Niger, near where our infoiinants 
described the modern kingdom of Atagam to be, so tliat some trace 
of the name seems to be preseiwed. 
“The Daradi, another of Ptolemy’s emigrant nations, (although they 
do not appear to have advanced beyond the modern Bergoo in liis 
time,) probably afterwards proceeded further westward, and founded 
the existing kingdoms of Daura, the neighbour of Cassiiia. The 
Gallas are still found south of Abyssinia, and also in the interior of 
the Grain Coast of Guinea. Cornelius Balbus subdued Gallas on the 
northern bank of the Niger. Browne learned that the people of 
Dageon, the neighbours of Darfour, came originally from the vicinity 
of Tunis. 
“ Many more instances might be given of the same names being 
found at remote distances north and south of the Niger, whilst other 
nations, as the Samaraicii, originally from the coast of the Mediter- 
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