- Barr. [14] The True Niger, Running From The Westwards Till It Loses Itself In The Sands Of Wangara, Seems Here Alluded To; And The Bahr El Abiad, Or Western Nile, Is Supposed To Be Its Continuation, Rising Again Out Of The Sand.

- E.

[15] This ought certainly to be after, and seems to allude to the Bahr el Abiad. - E.

[16] Literally a great sea. - Barr.

[17] This is a mistake, as it only takes a wide turn to the west in Dongola, around what has been falsely called the Isle of Meroe. The cliffs of the Red Sea seem to imply the mountains of Nubia, and the wide sea may be the lake of Dembea. - E.

[18] A strange attempt to account for the regular overflow of the Nile. - E.

[19] This account of the boundaries of Old Scythia is extremely vague. It seems to imply an eastern boundary by an imaginary river Bore, that the Caspian is the western, the northern ocean on the north, and Mount Caucasus on the south. - E.

[20] In the translation by Barrington, this portion of Scythia is strangely said to extend south to the Mediterranean; the interpolation surely of some ignorant transcriber, who perhaps changed the Euxine or Caspian sea into the Mediterranean. - E.

[21] Called by mistake, or erroneous transcription, Wendel sea, or Mediterranean in the text and translation. - E.

[22] The Cwen sea is the White sea, or sea of Archangel. The Kwen or Cwen nation, was that now called Finlanders, from whom that sea received this ancient appellation.

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