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of Africa as they were five-and-twenty centuries ago. 
The imperfect manner in which the details of this 
voyage, relating to time and distance, have been trans¬ 
mitted to ns by the Greeks, render it impossible to 
ascertain with precision how far it extended. The wild 
negroes, the hairy Gorillse, the great rivers filled with 
crocodiles, and the fragrance of the woods, all seem to 
point out the Senegambia as the country where the 
progress of the expedition terminated. Some great 
authorities, indeed, have extended it to Guinea, while 
A ROMAN EXPEDITION. 
others confine it within the limits of Cape Nun, on the 
southern confines of Morocco. Many of these geo¬ 
graphers have erred continually in their calculations, 
by mistaking the meaning of the expression Keras 
(a horn), which the Greeks generally applied to inlets of 
the sea, rather than to promontories. Those who restrict 
the voyage of Hanno to the coast north of the Senegal, 
insist on the unlikelihood of his passing such remark¬ 
able headlands as Cape Blanco and Cape Verd, without 
making particular mention of them ; but to this it may 
be answered, that we do not possess the original journal 
of the Carthaginian admiral, and that the deficiencies 
