1804.) 
differed very little from ‘that which may 
be gathered from the few intelligent Eu- 
ropean trayellers who have contrived to 
vifit that holy city; For no Chriftian can 
be permitted to approach it. The dif- 
guife of a Mahommedan is indifpent{able. 
Indeed the expence muft be a kar to moft 
perfons of habits commonly capable of en- 
during fuch fatigue; that ef my — 
exceeded fix hundred pounds. Though 
a Moor born and bred in Jatitude ee 3 
he complained Joudly of the ili 
heats of Mecca. 
From Mecca he returned by Alexandiia 
to the Mediterranean, which he ercffed 
thence to Conftantioople; where, as a 
defcendant of Mahommed, he was entitled 
to the privilege of wearing a green turban. 
He appeared quite clear in his genealogy 
from Mihommed, cn my requeiting him 
to trace it. From Conftantinople he weat, 
by fea, to London ; after vifiting Genoa, 
Lifbon, and fome other ports in the Medi- 
terranean, partly from curiofity, partly 
from commercial views: He was brave, 
generous, and frank in his difpofition ; ex- 
tremely affectionate and obliging. During 
his exile, he had: received intelligence of 
the death of all his fitters, fix in aumber 
with all their families and relations, to the 
number of fixtv, who died of the plague 
in Tetuan. 
I never faw a man more likely to feel 
fenfibly fo dreadful a lofs. But his 
pious refgnation to the will of all | 
Providence, fubdued all complaint. I 
have obferved in him, on other occafions, 
the fame tranquil refignation to the divine 
will. During the heavy gales of wind we 
encountered in our voyage, while moft of 
us Chriftians were quaking with alarm, he 
would ftretch himfelf out on his mattraf{s, 
and quietly hope for better weather. He 
was not incapable of exprefling his refent- 
meot when offended; and while almoft 
unaware of their efleet, fond of indulging 
in the ule of wine and fpirits ; but as far 
as the experience of a few wecks enabled 
me to eftimate his value, he was as amta- 
ble a friend as a Chriftian could hope to 
find. He {poke Englith and Spanifh and 
Italian fluently ; but he did not write in 
any other character than that of his own 
country, which is almoft to a point the 
Arabic. 
In the babel of languages fpoken 
among our crews, he was chief interpre- 
ter; and, generally fpeaking, chief talker. 
He informed me that the Emperor of Mo- 
rocco has 100,000 good, well mounted 
cavalry: a confiderable proportion of 
MonTuHiy Maa. No. 116. 
Deftrudtion of Herculaneum and Pompeii. 
54S 
which appeared to me, from his account, 
to ferve their fovereign fomewhat after the . 
manner of the Polith Poftpolite. He gave 
me alfo much other interefting information 
re{pecting the kingdom of Dukala; if E. 
reculleét aright, a great dependency on 
Morocco ; of the connections of Morocco 
with Tunis, and all the other neighbouring 
d of the internal commerce of 
es but as I had not an immediate 
funity of noting down his obftrva- 
3° Ethould be unwilling to attempt 
fating them now at random. After this 
aecount of him, it is no wonder that I 
fhould regret his departure. 
(To be continued, i) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
NOTICE aud EXTRACTS from the LATIN 
DISSERTATION Of M. N. IGNARRA (DE 
URBIS NEAPOLIS REGIONE HERCU- 
LANENSIUM) relative to the EPOCH of 
the TOTAL DESTRUCTION of the c1- 
TIES of HERCULANEUM Gd POMPEII, 
as lately PUBLISHED ig the MAGAZINE 
ENCYCLOPEDIQUE. 
GENERAL opinion prevails, the 
A author tells us, that Herculaneum 
and Pompeii were totally deftroyed and 
even {wallowed up at the time of the fa- 
mous eruption of Mount Vefuvius, which 
took place under the reign of Titus. This 
opinion, however, is far from being found. 
ed on the exact truth. The eruption, to 
which we here allude, was not the firtt 
that had ravaged thole places. The difaf- 
ters which it occafioned in the two cities 
were not fo completely defirugtive, but 
that in dating from that epoch, both the 
cities were again raifed, and ftill lefs that 
they hadentirely difappeared from the face 
.of the earth. Every thing announces that 
from the mof remote times, Mount Ve-’ 
fuvius has ejected flames. In fact, there 
dues not remain any memorials relative to 
the moft ancicnt eruptions of that volcano. 
However, if we examine well what Ter- 
tullian {ays, in a paflage of his Apologeri- 
con (chap. xl.) we fhall find that this au- 
thor mufi have had knowledge of a certain 
eruption which had occafioned. great dife 
afters, long before the year 79 of the 
chriftian wera: ‘* Oro vos, ante Tiberium, 
id eff, ante Chriflt advenium, quante 
clades orbem & urbem ceciderunt ? . 
wee eee» Nondum Fudeum ab fig) ipta 
examen Paleftina fufceperat, nec jam aie 
Chriftiane fecia origo confederat, quum rea 
Ziones ac fines ejus Sodoma et Gommorrha 
ygneus imber exuffit..... Sednec Tufcia 
atque Campania de Chriftianis quercbatur, 
4B qQuurm 
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