| Title: | Senegal, island |
| Original Title: | Sénégal, île |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 13 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Naomi J. Andrews [Santa Clara University] |
| Subject terms: |
Modern geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Senegal, island." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Naomi J. Andrews. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2007. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.720>. Trans. of "Sénégal, île," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Senegal, island." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Naomi J. Andrews. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.720 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Sénégal, île," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:13 (Paris, 1765). |
Sénégal, island, otherwise called the island of Saint-Louis by the French; small African island, at the mouth of the river Sénégal , two leagues below the large island of Bifeche, and about three quarters of a league above the small English Island. The French built a fort there in the last century, and it was the site of the principle trading post of the Sénégal Company. This small island, less than a league in circumference, is at 15d. 57. Northern latitude, in the middle of the Sénégal River.