number! The Moors and Arabs call the thick and beautiful
serpent _El Effah_, and the long black and heartheaded one _El
Bouskah_.

"I afterwards saw engravings of these two serpents in
_Jackson's Marocco_; which are very correct resemblances. They
are said to be very numerous on and about the south foot of the
Atlas mountains and border of the Desert, where these were
caught when young, and where they often attack both men and
beasts."--Vide _Riley's Shipwreck and Captivity in the Great
Desert_, p. 550.]

[Footnote 272: Disciples of Seedy ben Isa, whose sanctuary is
at Fas, and who possess the art of fascinating serpents.]

[Footnote 273: N.B. This is a misinterpretation of the Arabic
words here used, which, literally translated, signify, _God
alone, is great!_--J.G.J.]

_Animadversions on the Orthography of African Names_.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE, INSERTED MAY, 1818.)

Sir,

Bennet's-hill, Feb. 1818.

I should be much surprised to find that Jackson's account of what
he has heard is doubted, if I did not remember that Bruce's account
456 of what he had seen was disbelieved. Nothing human can appear to me
more deserving of implicit credit than the intelligence the former
of these writers gives respecting Timbuctoo. He has not seen it, it
is true. I have not seen Lisbon; but, if I had, and were to sit
down to write an account of it, some things would be necessary to
be described, with regard to which I should feel a degree of
uncertainty; and, having given an account of Lisbon, if I were to
visit it again, I should find others on which I had been mistaken.
But let me arrange in my own mind the information I want respecting
Lisbon; let me make enquiries of twenty intelligent persons who
have resided there; let me carefully compare their different
accounts, and who shall doubt the accuracy of the result?

Mr. Jackson has had an opportunity of acquiring information
respecting Timbuctoo that no other European ever had, by having the
direction of commerce in a city frequented by Timbuctan merchants;
a city, the port of which is called, in Arabic, _Bab Sudan_, the
Gate of Sudan. Mr. Jackson was qualified to make use of