Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in 1795,1796 and 1797. with an Account of a Subsequent Mission in 1805 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. Construction of the New Map of North Africa--New Arrangement of the Course of the Nile--Its distant Fountains yet unexplored by Europeans.--A central Position in Africa, determined.--Edrists Line of Distance, consistent.--Errors of Leo. In order that the reader may be enabled to judge of the improved of the authorities, together with an outline of the construction. To enter into a detail of both, would require a volume: I shall therefore barely specify the authorities for the sea coasts, and for such parts of the interior as have been aforetimes described by geographers; and confine the detail to modern discoveries, and to such parts, as those discoveries have helped to improve: and more especially to.the points which determine the courses of the Niger and Nile. state of the new map of North Africa, I shall set before him a list Table of the principal latitudes and longitudes in the Map. The longitudes thus marked, are from celestial observation, either at the place, or in the vicinage. t From timekeepers: the two first by Capt. Price, the latter by Capt. Richardson. The western ands outhern coasts, from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Equator, have been newly constructed for the present purpose. M. Fleurieu's authorities have been followed in respect of Cape Verd, Cape Blanco, and the Canary Islands. The coasts of Morocco and Fez, rest on the authority of Don Toflno's charts, in the Spanish atlas: and between Morocco and Cape Blanco, various authorities have been admitted, in the different parts; as it appeared to me, that M. Fleurieu had not rightly conceived the position of Cape Bajador. The coasts on the south and east of Cape Verd, are drawn in conformity to the ideas of Captain Price. This gentleman, in the Royal Charlotte East India shi...