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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee

Note 133 — Chapter XIII

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The following, which Baron Humboldt sketched before me, (and which is only laid down in Walker’s Map of the World on the globular projection) is a more extraordinary concatenation of rivers; considering the opposite courses of the Orinoco and Amazon when connected by the Casiquaire, which is more curiously situated than the south eastern branch of the Ogooawai, flowing, through Tanyan, into the Zaire.

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