?j6 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 afcent from Kenne all the way. 



We were now indemnified for the. famenefs of our na- 

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

 we found different forts of marble, twelve kinds of which 

 I felecled, and took with me. 



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

 at equal diftances ; fingle trees, fpreading broader than ufual, 

 as if on purpofe to proportion the refreihment they gave to 

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

 a ftation of the Atouni Arabs after rain. From our leaving 

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



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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 ftone. 



At a quarter pail four, we encamped at Koraim, a fmall 

 plain, perfectly barren, confuting of fine gravel, fand, and 

 ftones, 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 fa w. We then proceeded through 

 feveral defiles, into a long plain that turns to the eaft, thea 

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

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

 si eft 



