Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger, 1844, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Narrative of a Voyage Down That River to Its Termination Little notice is taken of the Niger by Strabo, but Pliny treats largely upon this river. After conduct ing it in an easterly direction from its source in lower Mauritania, through sandy deserts, sometimes flow ing over them, and at others disappearing beneath them, he brings it to the Nile of Egypt, and coin cides in the original opinion Of ...
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Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger, 1844, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Narrative of a Voyage Down That River to Its Termination Little notice is taken of the Niger by Strabo, but Pliny treats largely upon this river. After conduct ing it in an easterly direction from its source in lower Mauritania, through sandy deserts, sometimes flow ing over them, and at others disappearing beneath them, he brings it to the Nile of Egypt, and coin cides in the original opinion Of Herodotus, that the Niger and the Nile are one and the same river. But the most reasonable geographer of his time is Mela, who, while he nearly coincided in the general Opinion as to. The source of the Niger, after making it flow from west to east, acknowledges with be coming candour, that when it reaches the centre of the continent, no one knew what became of it. He justly deprecates as fabulous the idea of its flown beneath sands, and attributes such an opinion to the want of knowledge respecting it in different parts Of its course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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