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THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION. 
jflowers in yellow sprigs, and affords a hard lemon- 
coloured wood, employed in framing instruments 
of agriculture. The most sandy soils produce a 
species of brush-wood, resembhng the Spanish 
broom. The camel, the goat, and the hairy 
broad-tailed sheep, of a light brown colour, are 
the most frequent domestic animals. The most 
common wild animals are the ostrich, the an- 
telope, and a small beautiful species of deer of a 
clear white colour, streaked with different hues of 
brownish red, which, as the Fezzanese believe, 
never lies on the ground during the autumnal 
rains, to avoid sullying its colour. The number 
of towns and villages is supposed to amount near- 
ly to an hundred. Mourzouk, the capital, lies in 
N. lat. 4^8^ and E. long. 15° about 280 
miles from Mesurata, 1040 from Tombuctoo, 
Germa, the ancient Garama, now ruined, is 
situated in N. lat. ^7° 25', and E. long. 16° 20^ 
Zuela or Zawila, Tessouwa, Temissa, Kattron, 
Mendrah, and Tegerhy, are mentioned among its 
towns. In most of these towns, and dispersed 
through the open country, numerous ruins of an- 
cient buildings occur, which exhibit the vestiges 
of former grandeur, in the proportions and dur- 
ability of their structure, the number and size of 
the cisterns, and the construction of vaulted caves, 
similar to those which frequently present them- 
selves among the ridges of Atlas. Fezzan is the 
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