COMMUNICATIONS. 
land, but the okea, or ounce of Fezzan, is very different, for 
it contains 640 grains ; whereas the Enghfli ounce contains but 
480, which is a fourth lefs. 
A Fezzan ounce of gold therefore, or 640 grains, at rid. per 
grain, muft be worth in Fezzan 4L 
And an Englifli ounce of gold, or 480 grains, at i ^d. per 
grain, muft be worth in Fezzan 3L 
■ Among the circumftances for which the natives of Fezzan^ 
who travelled with Mr. Lucas, confidered their Sovereign as 
eminently diftinguifhed, they often mentioned his juft and im- 
partial, but fevere and determined adminiftration of juflice ; and 
as a proof of the afcendancy which, in this refpe6t, he has ac- 
quired over the minds of his fubjeds, they defcribed the follow- 
ing cuftom: — If any man has injured another, and refufes to go 
with him to the Judge, the complainant, drawing a circle round 
the oppreffor, folemnly charges him, in the King's name, not 
to leave the place till the Officers of Juftice, in fearch of whom 
he is going, fhall arrive : and fuch (if they are to be credited) is, 
on the one hand, his fear of the punifliment which is inflided 
on thofe who difobey the injundion^ and fo great, on the other^ 
