ion,) I should point out
many hearsay evidences, precisely recorded in my Account of
Marocco, which have been confirmed already by Ali Bey (El Abassy)
and many others; but "_non est hic locus_."

J.G. JACKSON.

[Footnote 254: Vide Appendix, No. II. to Park's Second Journey
page 103.]

_Strictures respecting the Interior of Africa, and Confirmation of
Jackson's Account of Sudan, annexed to his Account of the Empire of
Marocco, &c._

London, 16th Jan, 1818.

It is a satisfaction to perceive (after a lapse of eight or nine
years since the publication of my account of Marocco and the
interior of Africa), that in proportion as we are becoming better
acquainted with the interior of that continent, my account becomes
more authenticated, notwithstanding the attempts that have been so
447 insidiously made to invalidate it.

The various hypotheses, for the most part founded in theory, that
have within the last seven years, been adopted respecting the
course of the _Nile el Abeed_ (Niger), are beginning now to fall to
the ground, and the learned and judicious editor of the Supplement
to the New Encyclopedia Britannica, founding his opinions, as it
should seem, upon the facts that have been corroborated respecting
the interior of Africa, has actually adopted my opinion;[255] viz.

That there is an union of waters between the Nile of Egypt, and
that of Sudan[256]; where the common receptacle is, I have not
ventured to declare, but it is probable that it may be in the Bahar
Kulla[257], in Wangara, or in the [258]Sea of Sudan; the opinion
that the junction is formed in the Sea of Sudan is supported by the
Shereef Imhammed, who saw the Nile at Cashna, and declared that it
was so rapid there from east to west, that vessels could not stem
it.

[Footnote 255: See my letter to the Editor of the Monthly
Magazine, vol. xliii. March, 1817, page 125.]

[Footnote 256: It is incorrect to say, that the word _Nile_ is
applied, in Africa, to any great river: the name, I can with
confidence declare, is never applied to any river in North
Africa, except the Nile of Egypt, and that of Sudan; whoever
has propagated this opinion has mistaken the matter altogether.
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