x 7 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Mafarek, and, at ten, came to the mouth of the defiles. At 

 eleven we began to defcend, having had a very impercep- 

 tible aicent from Kenne all the way. 



We were now indemnified for the famenefs of our na- 

 tural productions yeilerday ; for, on each fide of the plain, 

 we found different forts of marble, twelve kinds of which 

 I felccted, and took with me. 



At noon, we came to a plain planted with acacia-trees, 

 at equal diftances ; fmgle trees, fpreading broader than uiual, 

 as if on purpofe to proportion the refrefhment they gave to 

 the number of travellers who flood in need of it. This is 

 a {ration of the Atouni Arabs after rain. From our leaving 

 Legeta, we had no water that, nor the following day. 



On the right-hand fide of this plain we found porphyry 

 and granite, of very beautiful kinds. All the way, on both 

 fides of the valley, this day, the mountains were of porphyry, 

 and a very few of itone. 



At a quarter pail four, we encamped at Koraim, a final! 

 -plain, perfectly barren, coniifting of line gravel, fand, and 

 Hones, with a few acacia-trees, interfperfed throughout. 



The 2 i ft, we departed early in the morning from Ko- 

 raim, and, at ten o'clock, we palled feveral defiles,^perpetually 

 alarmed by a report, that the Arabs were approaching; 

 none of whom we ever law. We then proceeded through 

 jl-veral defies, into a long plain that turns to the eait, then 

 north-eaft, and north, fo as to make a portion of a circle. 

 At die end of tins plain we came to a mountain, the great- 

 eft. 



