LUCAS, 
619 
Phazania Regio, which Pliny relates was con- 
quered by Corn. Balbus, who took both Allele 
and Cillaba in this country, and, at his return 
to Rome, obtained a triumph. The barren pro- 
vince of Mendrah derives considerable conse- 
quence from the quantity of trona, or fossile al- 
kali, which is produced on the surface of its smok- 
ing lakes, and is employed in dyeing the Maroc- 
CO leather. The houses of Fezzan are built of 
clay, covered with a fiat roof, formed of the 
boughs of trees, over which earth is spread. The 
Fezzanese, who, by the inhabitants of Tripoli, are 
reckoned remarkably ugly, have less similarity to 
the Arabs than to the negroes, whom they resem- 
ble, not only in their dark swarthy colour, but in 
the protuberance of the lips, the depression of the 
nose, and in their short crisped black hair. Their 
stature is tall, and their form good ; but they 
neither possess strength nor activity. They are 
represented as a hospitable nation by persons of 
the same religion, which is rigid Mahometanism. 
Their dress is the same with that of the Moors. 
Though the Fezzanese trade, with the most ad- 
venturous spirit, through all Africa, and have 
some artificers in their towns ; yet the principal 
occupations of the people are agriculture and 
pasturage. Their diseases are chiefly of the in- 
flammatory and putrid kinds, in curing which 
they place much greater confidence in charms 
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