Chapter V: Documents and Miscellaneous Papers (3)

[Footnote 165: This is the mosque called in the description the Western Mosque, and which is situated to the W. S. W. of the town.]

[Footnote 166: My learned friend M. Delile, author of the _Flore d’Egypte_, considers this tree as the _persea_ of the ancients; but this opinion is disputed.]

[Footnote 167: See “_Réflexions sur l’état des Connoissances relatives au Dhioliba_,” page 25.]

[Footnote 168: M. Caillié has brought away some seeds and fragments of gramineous and leguminous plants, collected between Timé and Djenné, and on the banks of the Dhioliba, now deposited at the vice-consulate of Tangier, with some white stone from the wells of El-Araouan, some minerals, and the plummet of which I have spoken.]

[Footnote 169: _Descript. Afric._ &c. page 429, Tigur. 1559.]

[Footnote 170: Consult the interesting work entitled _Naufrage du brig français la Sophie_, par M. Charles Cochelet, (Paris, 1821, in 8vo) where the author affirms that Sidi-Hamet did not visit Timbuctoo, and raises doubts upon the travels of Adams. (Tom. 2, chap. XV.)]

[Footnote 171: M. Jomard’s share in the publication is confined to the itinerary, the maps and the geographical discussions, the division, and the general superintendence of the work.]

[Footnote 172: It is the line which Watt and Winterbottom took in 1794.]

[Footnote 173: He passed considerably to the east of these towns.]

[Footnote 174: See the report page 451.]

[Transcriber's note:

Only evident typographical errors have been corrected; other inconsistencies or mistakes have been kept in.

To see the General map and Itinerary map in full detail, the reader is referred to the _Carte itinéraire du voyage de M. Caillié à Jenné et à Temboctou_ (E.M. Jomard, 1829), digitized and available at the _Bibliothèque nationale de France_. Similarly, the plate elements listed in the Explanation of the Plates that do not appear in "View of the city of Timbuctoo" (also named "View of part of the town of Timbuctoo, taken from the summit of a hill to the E. N. E.") can be found in the French original.]