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It has long been thought that the Senegal and the Niger were the same river,; and they were indifferently called by each name. Several ancient and modern authors have maintained this opinion; and others have controverted it. But the discoveries of Mungo Park have irrevocably decided the point; as this traveller has found, that the Senegal and the Niger are two different rivers whose course in opposite; the former running in a western, and the latter in an eastern direction.