[22]See Proceed. Afr. Assoc. for 1790, chap. iv.
[23]The road by Sockna, seems to be the short road to Phazania, mentioned by Pliny, lib. v. c. 5.
[24]There are several places of the name of Wadan, in this Geography; the name designing the conflux of two water-courses, or torrents. Another Wadan is found in the road from Mesurata to Fezzan; and a third, between Fezzan and Bournu.
[25]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 midway between Augila and Zuila. No town is known to exist there, at present.
[26]M. D’Anville reckons the distance between Tripoly and Mourzouk 240 G. miles, only: M. Delisle about 280, or less: and Sanuto, who wrote on the African Geography, (A. D. 1588,) 255. Thus, the 289 allowed above, from Mesurata, go beyond the highest calculation hitherto made, from Tripoly, which is yet farther from Mourzouk, than Mesurata is.
[27]Mr. Browne, who did not see the Bahr-bela-ma, was told that it lay a day’s journey to the west of the Natron Lakes; but unless it takes a turn to the west, beyond the point where General A. saw it, he must have been misinformed. See an account of the Bahr-bela-ma in the province of Faiume, in the Geog. Herod. p. 503.
The description of these valleys is to be found in the Mémoires sur l’Egypte, p. 212.
[28]This (I am given to understand) is the idea conveyed in the original Journal.
[29]The hills over the valley of Mogara, answer to the hills of Le Magra, (perhaps corrupted from El Mogara,) of Mr. Beaufoy; Afr. Assoc. 1790, ch. x. and also to the M. Ogdamus of Ptolemy, Afr. Tab. III.