W à s s ìb o o , and fìigga'rti (a placé ab out 1 5 ' short o f Ségo) ; ànà these alone, Out Or all that were taken during th e route. T h e s e * gi ve à course o f E 27°^- S , 1 74 geographfckl miles ; sb that when 1 7° o f vèriatibn are àllówéd, thè true Coursé Will b e E i o § S ; the diff. lat. 3 1 ,7 ; departure 1 7 1 , 1 ; whence-Diggarii ifìduÌd bé in lat. 14® 1 7 ', and 266,1 east b f Jarra. Be twéen Ü’iggarti and Segò (returning again to the table o f latitude and longitude), M r . P a rk ’ s account gives E 4 3 S 2 5 '; or corrected E 26 S, which igiygs diff- lat. 6 ,6 ; departure 113,5 : :s d ^ a t Sego, the capital town e f-B aA ib a ra , fads,- b y this ac co u n t, id lat. iJ[° 10 ' 3 o " ancL 2 79 ,6 east o f Jkrra.* ■ In this'position, it bears Ë 10 J S from Jairra, diitant 284 geographical mile s . I t .isjiroportant to mention, that whilst; at Jarra," the bearing o f S egò w i i p o in ted -o a t to M r , P a rk by compass, EpE,.'.or E 82°* S. . H is routé made it E é y J -S , o r 5° more to the kouth. T h is difference, so trifling in ai distance o f about 330 o f o u r miles; oh a straight line [in other wbrds,;thé distance from- Lon d on to-Edinbtirght), is not wortblrivestigating. I f we could suppose the .report o f the natives to b é trüè, it would piace Sego nearrly 25 minutés mòre po the north. F o r myjowti pàrt, 1 do not b e l ie v e 1 that any p e rson , from mere ju d gm en t, unassisted.,by geographical records, and so far removed as to be opt o f the hearing Of cannon, and o f the v iew o f conflagrations (two? a r ê ifin s ta n c e l't iia t aiti the most rri fix in g t t e i ìn é o f direction between distant placesTj'couTd e v e r come" nearer than s rom r i degrees o f the bearing o f two plari&s that are 7^30 Tlritish mil es.asunder.% H a v in g at length re a ch id thè banks o f tbè ìS f t g Sbììfeht'for r iv e r N i g e r (o r Jo-L IB a ), near wfiMh: tfielcity . o f Tomb.uctoo stands, M r . P a rk proce eded along it sevèra! fla g s 'J o u rn e y , "towards thè'1 c ity in question, on a course E 15^ N b y compass; but -corrected E N'-.yo G . miles; which g iv in g a diff. lat. d f . g ^ , djpdrture 5 9 , pla'ces SffllÇ’.fh e extreme point o f his expedition, in lâ tit tïd b 'ïif. ¿8 ' ¡--and longitude b y .reckoning 0° 5 9 ' west *' This being equal to"4°'47' differehCeôf ibng’itirde, Sdgd, by Mr. Park’s reckoning, would lie in 2^1' west' of G^één’wîcn1.-' f TKe- infó’rtìi'ànt might' pôssibfy i);6 'iiifhiéhC^d* bÿ thè’ bèàring of iWàt fòHidhi- óf thè road nearest to him, which is more easterly than thepàïftbw'àrds 'Sego. o f G re enw ich ; but, as will be hereafter shewn, when corrected, i ° 24 ' west. H e re , then, terminates his jo u rn e y eastward, at a point somewhat more than 1 6 degrees east o f C ape V e rd , and precisely in the same parallel. T h e line o f distance arising from this d i f f e r e n t o f lopgitude is ab out 9 4 1 G . miles, o r 1090 British, within the western ex tremity o f A f r ic a ; a point which, although short b y 200 miles o f the desired station, T om b u c to o , the attainment o f which would unquestionably have, been attended, with great e cla tt was y e t far beyond what any other Europ ean, whose travels h av e been communicated to the. E uropean wprld, bad e v e r reached.* * It.may not .be kpown to the generality, pf readers, that, in the former part pf thisu, century, Tombuçtop was "as muchthe' object ofgeogfapHical research amongst the French, as it has been bfiaté with thé English.11 B ’Anville was particularly anxious about it> às;rnay hé seènPi# the Mem. «¿the Academy of ItiScrip. Vol. xxvi. p. 73,
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