474 VARIOUS LETTERS guage, no more, or not so much so, as the provincial peculiarities of one county of England differ from another !

!

Unwilling to encroach too much on your valuable pages, I will leave, for the subject of my next letter, the inconceivable misconstructions and errors into which the ignorance of this language has led European travellers in Africa, of which I shall state some examples in a recent publication respecting Africa.

I am. Sir, Your most obedient Servant, James G. Jackson.

Cursory Observations on the Geography of Africa inserted in an Account of a Mission to Ashantee by T. Edward Bowdich, Esq, showing the Errors that have been committed by European Travellers on that Continent from their Ignorance of the Arabic Language the learned and the general travelling Language of that interesting part of the World, June 17, 1819. The Niger, after leaving the lake Dibber, was invariably described as dividing in two large treams. Vide " Bowdich's Account of a Mission to Ashantee," p. I87. The Lake Dibber is called in the proceedings of the African Association Dibbie, but the proper appellation is El Bahar Tibber, or El Bahar DeJiehbie. The Bahar Tibber signifies the sea ofgold dust j the Bahar Dehebhie signifies the sea