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Mongalla Zambnl7e

cape, extensive and country

ZAMBNL7E, MONGALLA,QUILOA, MON'I BAZA, MELINDA.

and the country of the MONOZMUGI. Ajan contains the republic of BRAVA, and the kingdom of M AG A DOXA. Adel iS an extensive kingdom, occupying the whole ex tent of the coast to which It gives name. See ADEL.

5. In CENTRAL AFRICA, according to this division, are included NIGRITIA, or Sou DAN, NUBIA, and ABYSSINIA.

Under the name of Nigritia is included that extensive tract of country south of the Sahara, which stretches al most completely across the continent of Africa, on both sides of the river Niger. It contains the empires of UCH:SSA and TomnucToo, the country of the AGADEZ, the kingdoms of LUDAMAR, BONDOU, BAMBOUIC, and other smaller principalities recently discovered by Al r Park ; and towards the cast, the kingdoms of BORNOU and DARFUR, of which an account has lately been pub lished by Mr Browne, the first European by whom it was ever visited. Nubia, an extensive country between Egypt and Abyssinia, comprehends Tullius,' NuluA, with the kingdoms of DONGALA, and SENNAAII. For a minute account of the divisions of Abyssinia, we refer to the article AnyssixiA.

Having thus given a general outline of the geography of this continent, we shall now conduct our reader once more round its coasts, and point out to him the capes and promontories which we meet with from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indian ocean. Proceeding

along the northern coast, we come first to CAPE BON, which is likewise called Ras-Addar, in the kingdom of Tunis ; next to CAPE SPARTEL, OD the western shore of Gibraltar Straits ; then sailing southward, we discover in the Atlantic CAPE GEER, in the south-west bound ary of Morocco, from which commences the extensive ridge of Atlas; CAPE BOJADOR, first doubled by the Portuguese in 1433; CAPE BLANC ; CAPE VERD, east of the islands of that name ; CAPE MESURADO, at the mouth of the Mesurado river ; PALMAS on the west, and the CAPE of the THREE POINTS oil the South of the coast of Guinea ; CAPE FORMOSA about the middle of the Gulf of Guinea; CAPE NEGRO 011 the north-west, and CAPE DE LASVOLTAS on the south-west of Caffra ria : CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, the most southern promon tory of Africa ; after doubling which, we come to NEE