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the coaft, and with refpefl to which its fituation is nearly South, 
•is about ^'390 miles. 
Eaftward of Mourzouk, and fituated in a diftri8: of remark- 
able fertility, is the town of Zueela, in which the remnants of an- 
tient buildings, the number and lize of the cifterns, and the con- 
ilrudion of the vaulted caves, intended perhaps as repofitories 
for corn, exhibit fuch veftiges of antient fplendour, as will pro- 
bably attrad, and may highly reward the attention of the future 
Traveller, 
To the South of Zueela, and nearly at the fame diftance from 
the capital, is the town of Jermah, which, like Zueela, is diflin- 
guifhed by the numxerous herds, efpecially of flieep and goats, 
that 
* In this ejlimate of dijlance, the rate of travelling is fuppofed to be twenty-two miles 
per day: — a conclufion that arifes from the time that was employed by Mr. Lucas in 
travelling from Tripoli to Mefurata ; for in that journey of 150 miles, feven days were 
(onfumed; and though the caravan was detained for a fezv hours on the fea coajl, and was 
employed during four more inpafing to and from the tents of the Arab, yet thefe lojfes zvere 
probably compenfated by the extraordinary difpatch with which, in confequence of tkeir 
fears, the greatejl part of the journey was performed. 
