ON AFRICA. 507 be situated, viz. fifteen journeys of horse-travelling, or from 400 to 450 British miles east of Timbuctoo.

The word Djinatva is the African word that denominates Guinea, but I cannot imagine that it was ever intended to signify Gana. (See Supplement to Encyclopgedia Britannica, p. 104.)

You say there are, in Africa, two rivers to which the name of Niger has been given : this is evidently an error, but possibly of the press only. There are, however, two rivers in Africa to which the name of Neel has been given.

The Proceedings of the African Association, vol. i. p. 540, declare that the Nile is a name applied in Africa to any great river ; but as this assertion is calculated to produce confusion in the geographical elucidation of the interior of that continent, and as it certainly is not the fact, I must here beg leave to contradict it, and declare that there are absolutely but two rivers in Africa, that bear the name Neel or Nile, viz. the Neel El Kabeer, Neele Sudan, or Neel El Abeed, i. e. the great Nile, the Nile of Sudan or the Nile of the Negroes j and Neele Masser, i. e. the Nile of Egypt.

If my knowledge of the African Arabic can be of any service in giving you the signification or correct orthography of African * Nile is a French term, and loses its proper pronunciation and is unintelligible when pronounced by an Englishman to an African ; but if written Neel and pronounced by an Englishman, it is intelligible.