this remedy should be divulged for the alleviation of our
meritorious seamen in His Majesty's service, I am willing to make
the discovery to any respectable medical man who may be appointed
by Government as physician or surgeon on the Mediterranean station.

JAMES G. JACKSON.

May 18. 1812.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LITERARY PANORAMA.

Circus, Minories, June 21. 1815.

Sir,

I request you will contradict in your next publication the
assertion of my _decease_, which is calculated to injure
considerably my interests abroad as a merchant. (Vide your Review
of Parke's Travels, page 377.) In answer to this unfounded
information, which has been propagated in your review of last
month, I have to acquaint you that I am not only in the land of the
living, but in excellent health, and waiting to hear the testimony
434 of some stranger or European traveller (since the Africans are not
to be relied on), who shall establish the fact of _the junction of
the Nile of Sudan with that of Egypt; or at least, the
approximation of these two mighty streams_. And notwithstanding
_the_ insidious reflections and censures passed on the native
Africans, from whom I gathered much of the information communicated
to the public in my account of Marocco, it must be allowed by all
liberal-minded men, that a native is more likely to give an
accurate account of his country than a foreigner; and a residence
of sixteen years in a country may be allowed to give a man of
common observation experience enough to select judiciously such
intelligence as might be relied on; and I have no hesitation in
declaring it to be my unalterable opinion, that _so soon as a
traveller shall have returned from the interior of Africa, many of
my assertions respecting those regions will be confirmed_, and that
information founded on the testimony of unprejudiced and
disinterested Africans, will be found not so contemptible as some
learned persons have imagined.

JAMES G. JACKSON.
435

_Critical Observations on Abstracts from the Travels of Ali Bey,
and Robert Adams, in the Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science,
and the Arts, edited at the Royal Institution of Great Britain,
Vol. I. No. II. page 264_.

Londo