ON AFRICA. 487 which has phicetl it three degrees of latitude north of the Neel El Abeed, or "" Neel Assudan, and in the Sahara ", unconnected with any river !

I doubt if any, but a very ignorant Pagan Negro (for the Muhamedan Negroes are more intelligent), would have given the Sea of Sudan this novel situation.

Page SOO. The Quolla appears to be the Negro pronunciation of the Arabic name Kulla ; i. e.

the Baliar Kulla, to which the Neel Assudan is said to flow. Bahar Kidla is an Arabic word signifying the sea altogether, or an alluvial country. The Neel Assudan here joins the waters of a river that proceed westward from the Abysinian Nile, and hence is formed the water communication between Cairo ° and Timbuctoo.

Page 201. Quolla Raba, or Kulla Raba, signifies the Kulla forest, as the Negroes express it ; the Arabs call it Raba Kulla, i. e. the forest of Kulla, If any further proof of the accuracy of this interpretation be necessary, it may be added, that the position agrees exactly with Major Rennell's kingdom o Kulla, for which see the Major's map in proceedings of the African Association, vol. i. page 209, lat. N. 9', long. W. 10.

™Neel Sudan and Neel Assudan are synonymous, the as being the article.

"jSee Mr. Bowdich*s Map, in his Account of a Mission to Ashantee.

** See Jackson's Account of Marocco, enlarged edition, p. 313. See also his Letter to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine for March, 1817, p. 125. 1x4