ON AFRICA. 467 Cursory Observations on Lieutenant- Colonel Fitzclarence* $ Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt, to England, Eton, 7th May, 1819.

It is remarkable, that in proportion as our mass of information respecting the interior of Africa increases, the truth of Mr. James Grey Jackson's account of that country, in the appendix to his account of Marocco, &c. receives additional confirmation. Some literary sceptics have been so far prejudiced against this author's report as to doubt its veracity altogether ; but let us see how far the interesting report of Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence, in his journal of a route across India, through Egypt, to England, lately published, corroborates Mr. Jackson's description of Timbuctoo, published so long since as 1809.

It is to be lamented, that Jackson's African orthography is not altogether adopted : with the superior and practical knowledge which he evidently possesses of the African Arabic language, it cannot, I presume, be doubted by the learned and impartial, that his orthography is correct ; and, judging from what has already transpired, I do not hesitate to predict, tliat his African orthography, from an evidence of its accuracy, will, in a few years, be adopted throughout; although the learned world have been ten years in « correcting Tomhuctoo into Thnbmtoo'y the latter being Mr. Jackson's ortho-H H 2