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~04 TRAVELS lN AF:RÎcA.short duration. The soil i5 here a tenacioUB clay, witha metaHic tifige,and no admixtute of vegetabJe matter. Marl wouId probably be foundon investigation.As we advance further into the country, every circumstancetends to justify the surïnisè, that the arenosemaSses here'"tofo1'e mentioned are a Neptuniati deposit, and notindigenous.At half-past twelve on the first day of the route th.e escort halted,and dinnel' was served to the Europeans undet a spreadingfig..tree.The governor of Mogodot, Bassa Ben Omar, who accompanied theembassy by his master's order, sent his quotato thé feast. This· con....sisted of fish and fmvls, higbly seasoned~àcé()rding to the Moorisbouisine, with saffron, the least teconclleable of aU the peculiaritiesofthis tàste to a European palate, (one at least which hàs not undergonedrilling in thisexercise in Spain,) and floating in argali oH.In theafternoon the journey was resumed, across an extensive range of cham.:.paign, covered with crops offine barJey; that on the dry uplal1ds beingfull ripe, whilst whatwas on the moist levels wasyet green~the power of the seasorl's here.Sudl lBSCIIIDYMA, or SIDYMA, thtee hours journey from the hlid..dayhaIt, twenty miles from Mogodot, consists of a rew buts, now unoc..eupied, which indicat~ this the site~ of a fair or mart. It 113 a1sol:hat of the remainsof aports.venetated Arab saint, as the narne im"The Mussulmen have adopted an idea farlnOr€ ancient thantheit creed; the connexion of commercial intercourse and devo..tion, tending to show how little of novelty exists underOur camp now forms a picturesque appearance.the Sttn.The sun dipping tothe ,vestern horizon with a tropical rapidity, unlikehis ptogress inour higher latitudes, strikes his ;lengthened rays, ,,.ith their parallelsbades, across a wide tract of country, timbered, or undèr yellowharvests.A moist and luxuriant garden, deeply shadedby spreading