bearing, from Mesurata on the sea coast.* These journies are given
at 8 hours, or 20 British miles per day : and I allowed for them 13
geographical miles, in direct distance ; but I shall now, finding by
experience that the paths in the Desert are generally very straight,
allow 16-T; whence the 17A days will be found to produce 288-1. or
say 289 G. miles. If these miles were entirely difference of latitude,
Mourzouk would not be lower than 27° 22' 2", as Mesurata is said
to lie in 32° to'.
2. Another authority adduced by the same gentleman, allows 23
days from Tripoly, by the way of Gwarian and Sockna, which turns
out much the same as the former result. The distance from Tripcly
to Fezzan, through Mesurata, is: 24-i days; consequently that by
Sockna, is the shortest, although now generally disused, on account
of its being unsafe.-f
The intersection of the two lines of distance from Augila mid
Mesurata; that is, 395 G. miles from the former, and 289 from
the latter, place Mourzouk in latitude 27° 23'; and at 30 G. miles
east of the meridian of Mesurata. Consequently, the bearing will;
be about S. ■£ E, instead of south, as reported.
3. Edrisi says, that the distance from Sort to Zulla, is nine journies,
which, on his scale of 19 per day, are equal to 1 7 1G. miles ; and
Abulfeda says that they lie N. and S. from each other. Zuila. is a.
point in Horneman’s route, about 60 G. miles to the E by N or ENE
of Mourzouk : and Sort, according to M. B ’Anville, lies in about
30o 28'. Consequently, Zuila, if in the same meridian,, should be in
* See Proceed. Afr . Assoc, for 1790, chap. iv.
+ 'The road by Sockna, seems to be the short road to Phazanicty mentioned, by.
Pliny, lib. v. c. 5.
latitude 27° 37', or 14, min. to the N. of Mourzouk. By the construction,
Zuila bears about S 70 W from Sort, which, in respect
of the difference of latitude, is much the same thing; and hence,
Mourzouk ought’ not tO' be to the -south of 27° 23*, or thereabouts.
4.. Ledyard was told, that Augila lay, west from Siwah; and
Wadan, (or Zala,) in the way to Fezzan, WSW from Augila.
Horneman gives much the same idea; saying that they went W by S
from Augila, at setting out. Unfortunately, Mr. Horneman omits,
to State the distance between Fezzan- and Tripoly),'although he
travelled it.
5. Zala, (called also Wadan,*) is said by Edrisi-, page 40, to be
nine days SE from Sort; and midway between Augila and Zuila ;
that is ten days from both.-f- A glance at the map will shew how
utterly improbable it is, that Mourzouk should be below the parallel
of 26°, considering its relative situation to. Wadan and Zuila.
Lastly, if it be admitted that Fezzan is the country of the Gara-
mantes, (and I know not where else to look for it, according to the
ancient descriptions,) then, its distance from the sea coast, as stated
by Strabo, p. 833, at nine or ten days journey, agrees exactly, i f
reckoned to Garama, the ancient capital. Pliny confirms it strongly,,
by placing the Garamantes beyond the Mons Ater, [ot which, more,,
* There are several places of the name of IVadaer, in this Geography/; the-name,
designing the conflux of two water-courses, or torrents. Another Wadan ¡» found;
in the road from Mesurata to Fezzan ; and a third, between Fezzan and Bournu.
t Mr. Horneman came, on the. day before he entered the black Harutsch, to a,
small wood of green trees. This situation accords with that of Zala, being just midi
way between Augla and Zuila. N o town is known to exist there, at presents.