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1N TRODneTION.effecting what had been with him, an early wish, the penetration into acountry the advanced. accbunts whtreof, fro~ St~~'bo and Leo Africanusto vVindus and Braithwaite, proved tbat much of what ought to beknown yet remained unexplored. ' Mr. Payne proceeded towards hisdestination by the way of France, Italy, and the Mediterranean; butthe general rendezvous of thosewho were to visitAfrioa in his suite,was fixed at Mogodor; a situation particularly adapted, from its proxi..mity to the western extremityofMount Atlas, to afford a convenic:mtopportunity of exploring a tract hithel;to untrodden by European feet~at no great sacrifice of eitber time or finances.A considerable portionof time notwithstanding, and a still greater proportionate space of theglobe interveBe, between the first setting out· and t:h:e ultimate pc!)Àltivhich it was the fortune of the ttavellersto attain, however short thisJast turned out to be of the original destinatiolll.And th:eparticùlapswhicb presented themselves, aad. eventswhichoCèuttedduringtthe ONeallld on the other, compose the subject ofthe ensu~ng lIlarratIve.;Part orthe gronnd has indeed been traced over by subsequent travellers,part remains as yet untouched.The writer is bound to·adimiit tDalthis work makes its appearance in the present day uader peculiar ;èil'''cumstances; of which, however; the prottaction which hasattendèd itis prominent ta a degree that reduces aIl the test to insignificance. Ifthat consideration has not had. the effect of inducing him ta supprcss italtogether, it is not from want of dtle l'eHcction.It would be a crimelittIe short of the plagiarism he trusts he bas effectually avoided, to profferfor public attention a thrice told tale; buthis opinion remains, thatmatter may be novel without being recent; and until Monnt Atlas heremoved from its bai'le, which the authûl' has not heard has taken place;or until moral evil cease ta struggle with orprevail over physioal good~which he d.oes not be}ieve~ he cannot subscribe to a sentence of Ob80"