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tained the temple of Jupiter Amnion. This Desert I regard as the proper 
Desert of Libya: and it may be a question whether the tribe of Lebeta, 
although now found in the interior of the country, may not have originally 
inhabited the sea coast; and that the Greeks denominated Africa from 
them* This was the part of Africa the nearest, and first colonized by the 
Greeks ; and it is a known fact, that the Adyrmacbidce, and Nasamones, 
who, in the days of Herodotus, inhabited the coasts, were at a succeeding 
period, found in the inland parts about Amman and Angela. 
The capital of Kuar is by Edrisi placed adjacent to Fezzan ; but there is 
either some mistake in this, or I do not comprehend the matter rightly. (Ed. 
p. 39, 40.) Tamalma, a city of Kuar, is only 1 2 days from Matthan (p. 14.), 
so that the Desert of Bilma, or Bulma, must lie between it and Fezzan. 
Mederam Isa, another of its cities, is said to be only two days from Zuela, 
or Zawila, a city of Fezzan ; and Izer, a third city, is placed in the same 
neighbourhood, and near a large lake. Either then, these cities belong to 
Fezzan, and are by mistake classed as belonging to Kuar; or they really 
belong, as well as Tamalma, (of which there is no doubt) to Kuar. I am 
inclined to the latter opinion, for the following reasons. In the catalogue 
of places, in Fezzan (in Af. Assoc.) there is no mention either of Izer, Isa, 
Bulmala, or of a lake near the former. But there is a remarkable salt lake 
near Dumboo, on the northern frontier of Bornou, which from its relative 
position to Tamalma, may well be the one intended by Edrisi : especially 
as Bulmala, (p. 40.) which may be meant for Bulma, occurs in the same 
neighbourhood. The salt lakes of Dumboo are said to be situated in the 
Desert of Bilma ; t which Desert appears to be a prolongation of the Libyan 
Desert to the SW. 
* Mr. Park mentions a wandering tribe named Libey, whom he had seen in his travels. 
He compares them, in respect of their habits and modes of life, to gipsies. 
f From the borders of these lakes, Kassina and other countries are supplied with salt, 
by the people of Agadez, who annually employ 1000 camels in this commerce. Af. 
Assoc. 1790, Q^p. 157, 167 ; and O. p. 236, 251. 
There is reason to suspect, that the great salt lake of Dumboo, is the Chelonides Palus 
of Ptolemy. 
