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TemifTa, a town in the dominions of Fezzan, and fituated to 
the Eaft North Eail of Mourzouk, receives them at the clofe of 
the feventh day ; and in two days more, of eafy traveUing, they 
arrive at a lofty mountain, rocky, uninhabited, and barren, of the 
name of Xanibba. Having recruited their goat-lkm bags from 
the only well which thefe fullen heights afford, they defcend to 
a vaft and dreary defart, whofe hilly furface, for four fucceffive 
days, prefents nothing to the eye but one continued extent of 
black and naked rock ; to which, for three days more, the equally 
barren view of a foft and fandy ilonc fucceeds. Through all this 
wide expanfe of varied nakednefs no trace of animal or vegetable 
life, not even the defart thorn, is fecn. On the eighth day, the 
vaft mountain of Ziltan, the rugged fides of v, hich are marked 
with fcanty fpots of brufliwood, and are enriched with ftores of 
water, increafes the labour of the journey. Four days are 
devoted to the toils of this ftupendous palTagc ; four others are 
employed in croffing the fultry plain that ftretches its barren 
finds from the foot of the mountain to the verdant heights of 
Sibbeel, where the wells of water and the chearing view of mul- 
titudes of antelopes fufpend their fatigues, and anticipate the 
refrefhments that await them on the next evening ; for the clofe 
of the following day conducts them to the town of Angela. 
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