VIII. On the rate of travelling, as performed by camels; and its applications, as a scale, to the purposes of geography.

Amongst the discoveries and improvements of various kinds, that may be expected from the very laudable, and, as it concerns mankind in the gross, no less humane and benevolent institution of an association for promoting discoveries in the interior parts of Africa, that of the geography of the Continent in question may be expected to make the quickest progress: since, in every kind of distant research, whether successful or otherwise, the act of enquiry alone brings materials to the geographer.