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fhowers. It is alfo called Beladullah, or the Country of God, 
on account of this double bleffing. The dates of Gerri are 
fent tothe Mek, and are referved on purpofe for him, They 
are dry, and never ripen, nor have any of the moift and 
pulpy fubftance of the dates of Barbary. They are firm 
and fmooth in the fkin, and of a golden colour. 
On the rft of Oober, at half paft five in the morning 
we left Gerri, the Acaba continuing on the eaft and weft, 
but the two extremities curving like a bow or an amphi- 
theatre. This ridge of mountains is compofed of bare, red 
ftone, without any grafs. At ten minutes after eight we 
changed our road to N. E. endeavouring to turn the point 
of the Acaba about three miles off, and at ten o’clock alight- 
ed among green trees to feed ourcamels. At three o'clock 
in the afternoon we left our refting- place in the wood. The 
mountains, which were then on our left hand, are thofe of 
the Acaba of Gerri; but thofe.on the right ftill ran parallel 
toour courfe, and ended in the Acaba of Mornefs: we were 
now two miles from the river, its courfe due north, About 
twenty minutes paft four we came to the Acaba of Mornefs, 
a ridge of bare, ftony hiils, and half an hour after we pafled 
it. There is very little afcent, and the road is only loofe, 
broken ttones,; which laft about a quarter of an hour. 
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Ar fix o’clock in the evening we came to Hajar el Aflad, 
or Hajar Serrareek, the firft fignifying the Lion’s Stone, the 
next the Stone of Thieves, a beggarly, ftraggling village, 
where there is a fakia, and {mall tiripes of dora, as if fown 
in a garden, and watéred from the well at pleafure. Hajar 
el Affad is the boundary between Wed Ageeb-and the Mek 
of Chendi; it is a yellow ftone fet upon a rock, which they 
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