ON AFRICA. 443 071 the Junction of the Nile of Egypt with the Nile of Timbuctoo, or of Sudan, TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE.** Sir, London, Jan. 25. 1817.

Having read some annotations, in the Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, by Mungo Park, in 1805, which are calculated to persuade some persons, that my Account of the Interior of Africa is not altogether authentic, I feef myself called upon to offer some cursory observations to the public, in refutation of those aspersions. (Vide Appendix, No. IV. to Mungo Park's Second Journey, in 1805, pages 114. and 115.)

Although I assert, on the concurrent testimony of the best informed and most intelligent natives of Sudan, that there exists a ' water communication between Timbuctoo and Cairo, I do not maintain that the Nile of Sudan falls into the Nile of Egypt, but that it hath a communication with it, or with some river that * Inserted in March, 1817.

' Vide Jackson's Marocco, second or thii;d edition, page 310. / {Nile el Kabeer) the Great Nile, [Ba!htrel Abeed, or Nile el Abeed) the Nile of Slaves or Negroes, [Nile Sudan) the Nile of Sudan or Nigritia, are the various names applied to the river that passes by Timbuctoo, and through the interior of Sudan, from west to east.

' Nik Masser is the name appHed to the Nile of Egypt.