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WEST AFRICA.

culminating points of West Africa, although Barth's estimate of its height, 8,000 to 10,000 feet, is regarded by Flegel as exaggerated.

Fig. 129 — Confluence of the Kwara (Niger) and Benue.

Below the Faro confluence the Benue flows mainly in a south-westerly