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horneman's travels. 
van traffic, and display that mean and shuffling 
spirit which the habits of petty trade are apt to 
generate. 
Leaving Augila, the party came in four days to 
a mountain called the Neddeck, diversified by pe- 
culiarly wild and abrupt forms of rock. In three 
days more they arrived at the Black Harutch, a 
long range of dreary mountains, the Mons Ater 
of the ancients, and whose aspect entirely corres- 
ponds to this name. For six days they continued 
to pass through range after range, the track lying 
through narrow valleys, or rather ravines, often 
steep, and obstructed by loose stones. Whenever 
our traveller, from curiosity, went a little out of 
the road, he found the ravines still narrower, and 
the aspect of nature more dreary and terrific. 
On emerging from this mournful region, they 
came to a vast plain, called the White Harutch. 
It is chiefly distinguished by the rocks and stones 
having all the appearance of being glazed. I): 
abounds in the remains of marine animals, and in 
shells, which, when broken, exhibit a vitreous 
fracture. 
On the sixteenth day after leaving Augila, the 
caravan arrived at Temissa, situated within the 
territory of Fezzan. The toils and dangers of 
their journey were now over, and both here and 
at Zuila they were received with rapturous de- 
monstrations of joy. Zuila is a considerable town, 
