F R O M T R I P O L I T O M O U R Z U K . companions, who had proceeded thither with our servants, horses, camels, an baggage. They had gone on to Memoom, a very pretty valley, which, at this season of the year, was green with herbage, and adorned by flowers of various hues and colours, richly scattered in beautiful disorder but it was the last of the kind we were fortunate enough to meet with between this place and Bornou ; and here the consul and his son, who had accompanied us from Tripoli, took their leave, with many hearty good wishes for our success and prosperity. neath, accounts well for the state and appearance of the side of the hill. The hill «aboutthree miles long, and runs from east to west. It is inhabited by a solitary family ; aman his wife and several children. We were told that he had resided in this dreary and barren place for eleven years, and i t is said lives chiefly b y plunder. TWhnna Near Niffud, the hills are of lime, and in structure and form not unlike those of the Tarhona " T the vicinity of the long range there are a number of small conicalhills, of,a so fti^ tm g - like substance, appearing as if recently thrown up, although, from every thing at all probable. The range runs parallel to that near the coast ; but we had no < ( £ * * * « ' determining how far it extends to the eastward and westward. There a r e *£ W of which we entered It is rugged, from the number of masses that have fellen from the sides of the hiUs Sevm^d tumuli of Tones are observable, marking the burial-places of unfortunafo travellers, who have been murdered here, it was said, by large rocks rolled from the W « W n g heights When I was examining the rocks, in the dry bed of a river, these monuments were pointed out, to make me aware my presence there was not free from danger. Him led to ajalley, with some thick groves of acacias, and a plant like a mesp.lus, with pleasant small astringent berries : it is called by the natives hutomo. From this we passed over a low hiU, into the valley Niffud. This valley has been the seat of much fighting, os our conductors informed us, among the Arabs of different tribes. . . . W e left th e valley, by a pass to th e southward, and entered an extensive plain, named Ambulum : in this we travelled the whole day. The surface, in some places a firm sand with here and there rocky eminences, and patches of gravel : the latter was fine, and mixed with fragments of shells. Often, for a considerable extent, not the least vestige o vegcta ion, place was the ground„completely covered, except in a few small oases, w ere t ere was^o specieis I t grass, of thegenus festuca. The fenicnlnm duter, and a beautiful genista, which ex ends all the way from the coast, were common. The butum occurred in abundance, and its shade was a defence to ns at times. We found some beautiful fragments of striped jasper, and some small pièces of cornelian. . . i ______ Boniem.—We had no opportunity of examining any of these ; but from the s rew they appear to be limestone. The wadey of Bonjem has characters different from any of the othL valleys we have passed through. This valley is strewed over with gypsum ... different states, with numerous shells, of the genus pecten, and several terebrellæ. There are here and
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