CHAPTER III.
Improvements in the general Geography of North Africa.— Remote
Sources of the Nile, and Termination of the Niger.— Lake of Fittre,
or Kauga.
T his division of the present subject respects the improvement's of
the general geography of the eastern quarter of North Africa. Since
the construction of the General Map, in 1798,* much new matter
has appeared in the Travels of Mr. Browne: and to these are now
to be added, the observations and inquiries of Mr. Horneman. These
important notices will be found mutually to explain and confirm
each other, as far as they go, over the same ground; and which is
to a very considerable extent.
Mr. Browne has the advantage in point of materials proper for
mathematical geography; whilst Mr. Horneman’s range of inquiry,
though equally extended, consists more of general notices,' in the
nature of sketches. Both possess very great merit; both appear indefatigable
in collecting the most useful matter that either presented
itself, or could be procured: and how much soever a person at his
ease, and in a state of perfect security, may blame the want of a
clear and connected series of notices, respecting the geography and
present state of the countries treated o f; yet it should he considered,
* That Map has been corrected accordingly ; and is placed opposite.