At Jenna It Fell Suddenly One Day From 94 Deg.

To 78 deg., and remained stationary for some hours.

At Assinara at noon, on the 23rd April it attained the height of 99 deg.. Near Katunga it fell upon one occasion to 71 deg. in the shade, the air being then cooler than they had felt it since landing. At Kiama the extremes were 75 deg. and 94 deg., the mean 84 deg.. At Youri, the range was the same. On their voyage from Youri to Boussa, on the 2nd August, it varied from 75 deg. to 92 deg.. At Boussa it varied from 76 deg. to 93 deg., but most commonly between 80 deg. and 90 deg.. At Patashie, generally between 74 deg. and 89 deg., once 93 deg.. Lever 77 deg. to 93 deg.. Bajiebo 70 deg. to 95 deg.. On the passage down the river below that place, on the 5th October, 78 deg. to 94 deg.. Belee 79 deg. to 94 deg.. Such has been the issue of this important voyage, by which the grand problem that perplexed Europe during so many ages, and on which, for a period of nearly forty years, so many efforts and sacrifices had been expended in vain, was completely solved. British enterprise completed, as it had begun this great discovery. Park in his first journey reached the banks of the Niger, and saw it rolling its waters towards the interior of the continent. In the second he embarked at Bammakoo, and by sailing downwards to Boussa, proved its continuous progress for upwards of a thousand miles.

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