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all fworn we will not fire a fhot, till we fee you heartily en- 

 gaged ; . and then we will do our bell to hinder the Arabs 

 from Healing the Sherriffe of Mecca's corn, for his fake only" 

 They all cried out El Fedtah ! El Fedtah ! fo I faid the prayer 

 of peace as a proxy ; for none of the Turks would come near 

 him. 



Opposite to where we were encamped is Terfowey, a 

 large mountain, partly green-marble, partly granite, with 

 a red bluili upon a grey ground, with fquare oblong fpots. 

 About forty yards within the narrow valley, which fepa- 

 rates this mountain from its neighbour, we faw a part of 

 the full or fhaft of a monflrous obelilk of marble, very near- 

 ly fquare, broken at the end, and towards the top. It was 

 nearly thirty feet long, and nineteen feet in the face ; about 

 two feet of the bottom were perfectly infulated, and one 

 whole fide feparated from the mountain. The gully had 

 been widened and levelled, and the road made quite up to 

 underneath the block. 



We. faw likewife, throughout the plain, fmall pieces of 

 jafper, having green, white, and red fpots, called in Italy, 

 " Diafpo Sanguineo." All the mountains on both fides of 

 the plain feemed to be of the fame fort, whether they really 

 were fo or not, I will not fay, having had no time to exa- 

 mine them. 



The 22d, at half pall one in the morning, we fet out full 

 of terror about the Atouni. We continued in a direction 

 .nearly eafl, till at three we came to the defiles ; but it was 

 fo dark, that it was impoffible to difcern of what the coun- 

 try on each fide confifled. At day-break, we found our- 



felves 



