Note (return) — SPECIMENS
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Ptolemy's Sea of Nigritia is undoubtedly the same with my Sea of Sudan; Lybia Palus 260 being the Latin denomination, as Bahar Sudan is the Arabic for the interior lake called the Sea of Sudan; but whether this sea of Sudan will ultimately prove to be situated 261 as I have described it, fifteen journies 262 east of Timbuctoo, or 450 English miles, or as Ptolemy has described it, or in the intermediate distance between the two extremes, must be left for future travellers to ascertain.