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JOURNEY TO AGHADEZ. 
defiles. Here and there were charming spots, green 
with herbage and trees. In going, the shallow 
wells at Eghelloua were found to be full of water ; 
but a month later they were all dry. Beyond is the 
Wady Chizolen, overlooked by a mountain that rises 
abruptly to the height of two thousand feet. Then 
comes the valley of Eghellal, with its rivulet, and 
beyond swell the famous mountains of the Baghzem. 
The worthy Doctor seems to have been too much 
occupied in collecting geographical data to preserve 
many picturesque facts by the way. On the third 
day he encamped at Tiggedah, where numerous 
species of trees and bushes tufted the valley, which 
was clothed also, near the margin of its streams, 
with grass as fresh and green as any in Europe. 
At that time, however, the place, with the exception 
of the cooing of wild doves and the cry of a solitary 
antelope, seemed perfectly unvisited by man. After- 
wards, it was found full of flocks and herds, and 
enlivened by the encampment of a salt-caravan, 
with a string of 3 7 oung camels bound for Aghadez. 
The tribe to whom the valley belongs are nomadic, 
and shift from one place to another, as their fancies 
and necessities suggest. Amidst the trees, however, 
may be seen a small mosque, built of stone and 
roofed with palm-trees. 
This agreeable place prefaces the still more 
luxuriant scenery of Asadah, where the vegetation 
is so rich, and the path so shut up by branches, that 
it is difficult to keep on the camel's back. What a 
