leads by the west; but we can hardly suppose that the northern
road is two days farther about than the other. Mr. Horneman, it
is true, lost his papers at Schiacha, and may not have recollected the
exact account of time during the three first days, to that place. I
have accordingly allowed 186, as a mean between Mr. Horneman
and Edrisi.
Mr. Horneman could not obtain a satisfactory account of the
distance between Augila and Bengasi, on the sea coast. Edrisi allows
10 days from Barca; but these, reckoned at 19 each, meet the
line from Siwah, in 30° 7', which gives a bearing of W 18° N from
the latter; whereas it seems to be the universal opinion, that they
lie nearly in the same parallel.*
Delisle and D’Anville go much beyond Edrisi’s distance. The
latter allows 215 from Barca, which is very probable : and he may
perhaps have allowed it from the relations of modern travellers. I
have accordingly adopted it; and it meets the line of 186 from
Siwah, in lat. 29° 30', Ion. 220 50'. In this position it bears about
W ^-N from Siwah.
Ptolemy allows 30 16' diff. lat. between Derna ( Darnis) and Augila,
which would-place the latter, on our Map, in 29^°. He also
makes the line of bearing between Ammon and Augila to be nearly
parallel to the, sea coast, between Paraetonium and Derna; and it is
certain, although Ptolemy thought otherwise, that the coast lies
much to the north of west.
It may be that the longitudes of the places.on the coast of Barca,
* Abulfeda and! Ptolemy describe it to be so; and Ledyard was told the same at
Cairo.
are too far to the west, in M. D’Anvi lie’s Maps. Lucas appears
to reckon Augila n days only, from Bengasi.
III. Augila to Fezzan.
From Augila to Fezzan, Mr. Homeman’s time is not kept regularly
in hours, the whole wa y ; owing, perhaps, to the excessive
fatigues he underwent in the Harutscb or Black Desert, in which
whole days only, are given; but these were exceedingly long, being
usually from morning till night.
All that could be done, was, to reduce these particular days to
hours, and add them to the enumerated hours in the Journal; whence
there results a total of 195 to 196 hours, at the highest calculation :
and these, with proper deductions for the badness of the paths, in
the Harutsch, may be taken at 395 G. miles in direct distance.*
# This is the computation : h
From Augila to the Mountains o f Moraije - - - 26
T o the Plain o f Sultin - - - - - - _ _ ■ xg
Across the Plain or Desert o f Sultin, &c. to a woody tract, 3 journies ; but no
account in hours, say - _ _ . _ _ ^
T o the entrance o f the black Harutsch, about 1 day, say - - _ 10
T o a watering-place in the Harutsch - - - - - - - 4
T o the end o f the black Harutsch, 3 ! days j say - - - - - 4 0
Through the white Harutsch, 11 day; say - - - - - • * *
T o a watering-place on the borders of Fezzan - - - - 4
T o Temissa - - _ _ - . - , _ - 9
Zuila - - - - - - - - - - . fix — -
Hamarra - . . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Tragan - _ . . . . . _ . _ _ I o i
Sidi Bisher - - _ . _ _ _ _ _ _ g
Mourzouk - _
Th e road distance, at 2 f British miles per hour, gives 488f, which, at A part for
s