CHAPTER IV. 
"Rout from Mefiirata Enumeration of the principal Towns of 
Fezzan — Account of its Climate and principal ProcluBions — ■ 
Defcription of the Manners, Religion, and Government of its 
' People, their Revenue, Adminifiration of fuflice^ and Military 
Force. 
Fezzan, whofe fmall and circular domain is placed in the 
vaft Wildernefs, as an ifland in the midft of the ocean, is fitu- 
ated to the South of Mefurata. A journey of eight days, through 
diftrids but little inhabited or improved, though naturally not 
unfertile, conducts the Traveller to the town of Wadan, where 
every requifite for the refrefhment of the caravan is found.- 
prom thence, in five hours, he arrives at the forlorn village of 
M 2 Houn, 
