Africa and its inhabitants . fcSOlo WfSl of « I6 Depths. 0to32Feet. 35 Feel andupwards. 1,100 Yards. TOPOGE^iPHY OF SENEGAL. 159 The Arguin Bank terminates at CapeMirik, about 100 miles south-east of CapeBlanco, near which a breach in the dunes indicates the approach to the dangerousroadstead of Portendik, the old Port of Addi, which enjoyed a certain importancetill 1857, the English, when restoring Senegal to France, having reserved theright of trading in these waters. But this right having been relinquished inexchange for the station of Albreda, at the mouth of the Gambia, Portendik
Africa and its inhabitants . fcSOlo WfSl of « I6 Depths. 0to32Feet. 35 Feel andupwards. 1,100 Yards. TOPOGE^iPHY OF SENEGAL. 159 The Arguin Bank terminates at CapeMirik, about 100 miles south-east of CapeBlanco, near which a breach in the dunes indicates the approach to the dangerousroadstead of Portendik, the old Port of Addi, which enjoyed a certain importancetill 1857, the English, when restoring Senegal to France, having reserved theright of trading in these waters. But this right having been relinquished inexchange for the station of Albreda, at the mouth of the Gambia, Portendik has Fig. 05.—Gdlf and Isulnd of AsoriN. Scale 1 : 1,000, Depths. 0to32Feet. 32 to 80Fwt. 80 Feet andupwards. 15 Uiles. lost all commercial value, and Saint-Louis remains the only outport for the wholeseaboard from Cape Blanco to the mouth of the Senegal. But the capital depends itself on its maritime port of Gorcc-Dakar, which hasthe advantage of lying in deep water under the shelter of Cape Vcrd, and which isnow connected with Saint-Louis by the three fortified stations of Lontpid, Mboro,and Mbijen. By the Convention of 1861 the whole coast was declared Frenchterritory; next year a second route was opened farther inland, and in iSS-i therailway was completed which henceforth connects Saint-Louis with its naturalport on the Gulf of Gorec. In the intervening fertile region of Cayor lie .severallarge centres of population, such as Mptif, surrounded by plantations of ground-nuts, Liif/a farther south, and Mdand, the old capital of the kingdom of Cayor. 160 ^EST AFRICA. Goree, the first European factory on this coast, appears to have been origi
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