480 VARIOUS LETTERS literally translated into English, signifies many house. This being premised, we may reasonably suppose, that Bahar Kulla is the proper term which, as I have always understood, forms the junction of the Nile of the west with the Nile of the east, and hence forming a continuity " of waters from Timbuctoo to Cairo.

191. In this geographical dissertation the word Niger is still used, which is a name altogether unknown in Africa, and calculated to confuse the geographical enquirer. As this word is unintelligible to the natives of Africa, whether they be Arabs, Moors, Berebbers, Shelluhs, or Negroes, ought it not to be expunged from the maps ?

P. 19. In the note in this page, " Jackson's Report of the source of the Neel el Abeed, and the Source of the Senegal," is confirmed by the Jinnee Moor.—See Jackson's Appendix to his Account of Marocco, enlarged edition, p. 311.

" It is said, that thirty days from Timbuctoo they eat their prisoners !" Does not this allude to Banbugr, and has not this word been corrupted by Europeans into Bambarra. See Mr.

See my letter in the Monthly Magazine for March, 1817, page 128.

The Gr in Banbugr, is the Arabic letter, grain. Richardson, in his Arabic Grammar, renders this letter gh ; which demonstrates, that his knowledge of the Arabic was only scholastic, not practical. It has no resemblance or affinity to gh, and would be unintelligible if so pronounced to an Arab.