COMMUNICA TIONS. 
Diftlnguifiied as the moft commercial of all the towns of 
Cafhna, and, like AlTouda and Ganatt, inhabited by Mahometans 
alone, Agadez naturally attrafts the peculiar attention of the 
Merchants of Fezzan. Many of them proceed no further ; but 
the greatefl: part, committing to their Agents the care of the 
flaves, cotton, and fenna, which they purchafe in the courfe of 
a ten days refidence, continue their journey to the South. 
In this manner, if tlie camels are compleatly loaded, feven 
and forty days, exclufive of thofe which are allotted to refrefli- 
ment and necefiary reft, are employed in travelling from Mour- 
zouk to AgadeZo. 
At the end of three days more, amidft fields that are enriched 
with the luxuriant growth of Indian corn, and paftures that are 
covered with multitudes of cows, and with flocks of iheep and 
goats, the Traveller reaches the fmall Town of Begzam.; from 
which, through a country of herdfmen, whofe dv^ellings are in 
tents of hides, the fecond day conducts him to the Town of Te- 
gomah. There, as he furveys the ftoney, uninhabited, defolate 
hills that form the chearlefs profpecl before him^ he calls a re- 
gretful eye on thofe verdant fcenes that furrounded him the day 
before. Employed for two days in the paffage of thefe dreary 
heights, he defcends on the third to a deep and fcorching fand, 
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