Ghanah, or Ghinnah, is placed, in respect of Cashna, according to M. D’Anville’s Map. It does not appear whether he had any authority for placing it ninety miles to the North East of Cashna: but its position, in respect of the City of Nuabia, (antiently Meroé, on the Nile) is on the authority of Edrisi. This Author also allows twelve days between Agadez and Ghanah: and by my construction, they are two hundred and eight miles asunder. See _Geog. Nubiensis_, p. 39. Ghanah was in the twelfth century a city of the first consequence. Wangara and Kanem, were also known to Edrisi. The river known to Europeans by the name of NIGER, runs on the South of the kingdom of Cashna, in its course towards Tombuctou; and if the report which Ben Alli heard in that town, may be credited, it is afterwards lost in the sands on the South of the country of Tombuctou. In the Map, only the known part of its course is marked by a line; and the suppositious part by dots. It may be proper to observe, that the Africans have two names for this river; that is, NEEL IL ABEED, or RIVER OF THE NEGROS; and NEEL IL KIBEER, or THE GREAT RIVER. They also term the NILE, (that is, the Egyptian River) NEEL SHEM: so that the term NEEL, from whence our NILE, is nothing more than the appellative of River; like GANGES, or SINDE. From Cashna the road leads Westward to the Kingdom of GONJAH, ninety-seven days journey from the former. _Gonjah_, is, from circumstances, the _Conche_ of M. D’Anville, and the _Gonge_ of M. Delisle; and the similitude of names, however great, is the least proof it: for the Itinerary of the SHEREEF IMHAMMED says, that eighteen or twenty days from Gonjah, towards the North West (or between the West and North) lies the Country of YARBA: and eight days farther West, that of AFFOW. Now the countries of YARRA and YAFFON, will be found in Delisle’s Map of Senegal (1726), nearly in the position that _Yarba_ and _Affow_ take in respect of Gonjah; supposing D’Anville’s _Conche_ to be meant for it. It is extremely difficult to assign a ratio for the decrease of the horizontal distance, on so extended a line as ninety-seven days journey; and therefore it would be losing time to attempt it. Gonjah, by circumstances, is about eight hundred and seventy miles from Cashna, which allows only nine miles for each day. I therefore conclude that the road is very circuitous.