i . A fcl, -derable part- o f the custom-house revenue. T h e y have young twice a year, and often, one goat is followed by six or seven kids o f her own, the production of nine months. T h e goats o f the. Arab province o f Shedma, and the Shelluh province o f Haha, are the finest in West Barbary, but the T a fi- le lt goats,-as before observed, surpass them in size and q u a lity ; their milk is richer'and more abund an t; the ir meat more delicate, particularly when.young. T h e (jild Filelly) Tafile lt leather, is the softest and the finest in the world, and much superior to that o f Marocco, or even to that o f Terodant: soft and pliable as silk, it is impervious to water. T h e tanners o f T a file lt use the leaves o f a shrub called tizra, which grows in the A d a s mountains; this, it is pretended, gives their leather that peculiar softness for w hich it is so much esteemed ; this however is doubtful, as the tanners, above all people, are cautious o f discovering to strangers their art o f tanning. Some quality in the air and water possibly may contribute to giv e the leather that extraordinary p liability. REPTILES, INSECTS, SERPENTS, ScCThe Camelion.— Tatta is the Arab ic, and T a y u h the She lluh name for this extraordinary and complicated animal; its head resembles that o f a fish, the body that o f a beast, the tail that o f a serpent, and the legs and feet are somewhat similar to the arms and hands o f a human be in g; the tongue is pointed like that o f a serpent, and is so instantaneous in its motion, that the human sight, can scarcely perceive it when it darts it out to the length of its body, to catch flies (its ordinary food ); in doing this it never misses its mark, so that I imagine there must be some glutinous substance which attaches the fly to the tongue,
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