EXT, DE LA RELATION DES CÔTES D'AFRIQUE

lements were entirelÿ abandoned, but then there are various bays and towns on the gold coast, which still retain their original French. appellations, as Rio-Fresco or the bay of France, Petit-Dieppe, or Rio-Corso, and Sestro Paris, or gran Sestro, on the grain coast. Besides, à certain bastion at fort El-Mina, after various revolutions » Was denominated the French bastion, and with g00d reason, since it plainly had a mutilated inscription in which the cyphers 13 were very legible, which must have signified 1383. But this ingenious process of antiquarian reasoning is entirely confuted by the obstinate silence of both the French and Portugueze historians, who would not have omitted so remarkable an event. The voyages of the merchants of Dieppe to Africa, must therefore be consigned to oblivion, with the voyages of the Venetian discoverers of

America lately preserved in S.-Mark’s library at Venice. »