CHAPTER V.

_Construction of the New Map of North Africa. — New Arrangement of the Course of the Nile — Its distant Fountain yet unexplored by Europeans. — A central Position in Africa, determined. — Edrisi’s Line of Distance, consistent. — Errors of Leo._ p. li

_The Subject continued — Course of the River Niger, at large — has no Communication with the Nile — Ptolemy’s Description of it consistent._ p. lxx