nunciation,
the name of the city being _Timbuctoo_." The next improvement in
African geographical orthography, will probably be the conversion
of Fez into _Fas_ (for there is absolutely no more reason for
calling it Fez than there has been for calling Timbuctoo,
Timbuctoo), this word being spelled in Arabic with the letters _Fa,
Alif_, and _Sin_, which cannot be converted into any other
orthography but _Fas_; the same argument would hold with various
other words spelled correctly by this author, an accurate
elucidation of which might encroach too much upon your valuable
pages. I shall therefore briefly state, that in page 480 of Colonel
Fitzclarence's Journal, the name of the Moorish gentleman to whose
care the sons of the Emperor of Marocco, Muley Soliman, were
confided, is stated to be El Hadge Talib ben Jelow: this is
incorrect orthography, there is no such name in the Arabic language
as _Jelow_, it is a barbarism; ben Jelow signifies ben Jelule, and
the proper name is _El Hage Taleb ben Jelule_.

469 Behur Soldan is evidently another barbarism or corruption of the
Arabic words _Bahar Sudan: vide_ Jackson's Account of Marocco,
Timbuctoo, &c. page 309, published by Cadell and Davies.

It has been observed by an intelligent French writer, that "_Le
pluspart des hommes mesurant leur foi par leur connoissance acquise
croyent A fort peu de choses_." In confirmation of this opinion,
many intelligent men, at the time of the publication of Jackson's
Account of Marocco, Timbuctoo, &c. doubted the existence of the
_Heirie_, as described by him; but in proportion as our knowledge
of Africa improves, we see that the truth of these wonders is
confirmed: and Colonel Fitzclarence mentions one that travelled
four days in one; but we should not be surprised to hear, before
this century shall terminate, that an Englishman had travelled from
Fas to Timbuctoo on a Heirie, accompanied by an accredited agent of
the Emperor of Marocco, in ten or fifteen days!

It appears by this ingenious traveller's Journal of a Route, &c.
page 493, that all religions are tolerated at Timbuctoo. This is a
confirmation of what is reported by Jackson, in the Appendix
annexed to his Account of Marocco, &c. page 300.

The fish in the river of Timbuctoo, the Neel El Abeed or Neel of