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that are feen around it ; by the various and abundant produce of 
its adjacent fields ; and by numerous and majeftic ruins, that 
exhibit to the ignorant inhabitants of its clay-built cottages in- 
fcriptions of which they know not the meaning, and velHges of 
greatnefs to which they are perfectly indifferent, 
Teffouwa, a confiderable town, is alfo fituated to the Eaftward 
of the capital; but feems to have no claim to particular attention. 
Near this town, a river which the Shereef defcribesas overwhelmed 
in the moving fands, but which he remembers a deep and rapid 
flream, had formerly its courfe,. 
More remote from Mourzouk, being diftant fi'om it in a N. E. 
direction, about 120 miles, is the large town of TemmifTa. Here 
the caravan of Pilgrims from Bornou and Nigritia, which takes 
its departure from Mourzouk, and travels by the way of Cairo 
to Mecca, ufually provides the ftores of corn and dates, and dried 
meat, that are requifite for its dreary palTage,- 
S. E. from the capital^ and diftant from it about fixty miles, is 
the fmall town of Kattron, which feems to be remarkable for no- 
thing but the quantity which it breeds of the common fowl, and 
for 
