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days more they arrived at the Black Harutch, a 
long range of dreary mountains, the Mons Ater of 
the ancients, and whose aspect entirely corresponds 
to this name. For six days they continued to pass 
through range after range, the track lying through 
narrow valleys, or rather ravines, often steep, and 
obstructed by loose stones. Whenever our travel- 
ler, from curiosity, went a little out of the road, he 
found the ravines still narrower, and the aspect of 
nature more dreary and terrific. On emerging 
from this mournful region, they came to a vast 
plain, called the White Harutch. It is .chiefly 
distinguished by the rocks and stones having all 
the appearance of being glazed. It abounds in the 
remains of marine animals, and in shells, which, 
when broken, exhibit a vitreous fracture. 
On the sixteenth day after leaving Augila, the 
caravan arrived at Temissa, situated within the ter- 
ritory of Fezzan. The toils and dangers of their 
journey were now over, and both here and at Zuila 
they were received with rapturous demonstrations 
of joy. Zuila is a considerable town, containing 
many rich merchants. It was said to have been an- 
ciently the capital of Fezzan ; and the ruins, as 
well as a great part of its circuit unoccupied, seem- 
ed to bear testimony that it had once been more 
considerable than at present. In a short time they 
arrived at Mourzouk, the capital, which terminated 
their tedious journey of seventy-four days. The 
