Senegal

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(n.) Gum senegal. See under Gum.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

An important river of West Africa, formed by the junction, at Bafulabé, of two head-streams rising in the highlands of Western Soudan; flows Nw., W and SW., a course of 706 m., and discharges into the Atlantic 10 m. below St. Louis; navigation is somewhat impeded by a sand-bar at its mouth, and by cataracts and rapids in the upper reaches.

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