ON AFRICA. 479 which is about two feet deep ; it runs into the great forest on the east, and does not communicate with the Nile, but is lost in the sands west of the town : its water is brackish ; that of the Nile is good and pleasant."

Page 199. Mr. Murray recently observes, ** Joliba seems readily convertible into Joli-ba, the latter syllable being merely an adjunct, signifying river ; this 1 was also given to understand."

This is an etymological error. The Joliba is not a compound word, if it were it would be Bahar Joli, not Bajoli, or Joliba ; thus do learned men, through a rage for criticism, and for want of a due knowledge of African languages, render confused, by fancied etymologies, that which is sufficiently clear and perspicuous.

Page 191. " The river of DarkuUa mentioned by Mr. Brown."

This is evidently an error : there is probably no such place or country as Darkulla. There is, however, an alluvial country denominated Bahar Kulla, (for which see the map of Africa in the Supplement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, p. 88. lat. N. 8 long. E. 20«). I apprehend this Darkulla, when the nations of Europe shall be better acquainted with Africa and its languages, will be discovered to be a corruption of Bahar Kulhy or an unintelligible and ungrammatical term : Deaar Kulla is grammatical, and implies a country covered with houses ! Dar Kulla is an ungrammatical and an incorrect term, which being