eedings of the African Association, vol. i. page 540.]

[Footnote 257: See Major Rennell's Map of North Africa, lat.
north 6 deg., long, west 18 deg., &c.]

[Footnote 258: See Jackson's enlarged Account of Marocco,
Timbuctoo, &c. page 310.]

448 Again: Parke's intelligence, in his second journey, demonstrates an
union of waters in the (Baseafeena[259]) Sea of Sudan; for he says,
the current was said to be sometimes one way, and sometimes
another; which I will take the liberty to interpret thus:--

That the current from the Eastern Nile, was westward into the Sea
of Sudan, and the current of the Western Nile was eastward into the
same sea of Sudan: thus the current would be sometimes one way, and
sometimes another, making the Sea of Sudan the common receptacle
for the Eastern as well as for the Western Nile.

Ptolemy's Sea of Nigritia is undoubtedly the same with my Sea of
Sudan; _Lybia Palus_[260] being the Latin denomination, as _Bahar
Sudan_ is the Arabic for the interior lake called the Sea of Sudan;
but whether this sea of Sudan will ultimately prove to be
situated[261] as I have described it, fifteen journies[262] east of
Timbuctoo, or 450 English miles, or as Ptolemy has described it, or
in the intermediate distance between the two extremes, must be left
for future travellers to ascertain.

[Footnote 259: Another name for the Sea of Sudan, as will
hereafter appear.]

[Footnote 260: See Ptolemy's Map of North Africa.]

[Footnote 261: See Jackson's enlarged Account of Marocco, page
310.]

[Footnote 262: Fifteen journies horse travelling, which are the
journies here alluded to, at thirty miles a-day, is 450 British
miles.]

The enterprising and indefatigable, the patient and persevering
genius of Burkhardt, deriving incalculable advantages from a long
449 residence in the eastern regions of Africa, may probably decree him
to be the person to clear up this long-contested geographical
point, unless the fascination of Arabian manners, or some Utopia in
the interior regions of that continent, should wean him from the
desire to re-visit his native country.

This intelligence of Park may be considered some corroboration of
what I have maintained respecting the union of waters between t