Note 87 — GHÁNAH — Aúdaghost — Aúlíl.
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The Arab geographers, unable to form an exact conception of the country westward of Ghánah, diminished the distance between that place and the ocean. El Idrísí makes the distance between Silla and Aúlíl to be sixteen days’ journey (Rec. de Voy. V. p. 11); but Abulfedá sets Ghánah only four degrees eastward of the ocean (Reiske’s Trans. in Büsching’s Mag. V. p. 354). In like manner Leo (pt. VII. c. 3) says that the kingdom of Jenni, extending 250 miles along the river, reaches the ocean; and he supposes Walata to be only a hundred miles from the sea shore. As he was copied in all his errors, our maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries uniformly placed Tomboktú too far westward.