ABSTRACT
Augila, a town well known in the time of Herodotus, covers a space of about one mile in circumference. Mojabra is of smaller extent, but appears proportionally more populous than Augila. Round Augila the country is level and the soil sandy, yet, being well watered, is tolerably fertile. The inhabitants of Meledda are chiefly employed in agriculture: those of Mojabra engage mostly in trade, and pass their lives in travelling betwixt Cairo and Fezzan. To the north of the Desert runs a chain of steep and bare calcareous mountains, which were in constant view of caravan travelling at the distance of three to seven miles in like direction. The people of Ummesogeir are indeed in every respect poor, depending wholly for subsistence on their dates, which they in part sell to the Arabs of the Desert, and in part carry to Alexandria, and exchange for corn, oil, or fat.
