BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 15: The country in the neighbourhood of the City of Bornou is fertile in Indian corn and rice. Of barley and wheat the quantity raised is small. A species of bean, which resembles the horse-bean of Europe, though larger, and of a darker hue, is a much more common produce. Gum-trees are thinly scattered. Cotton, hemp, and indigo, are also among the various produce of its soil. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 16: The country abounds in different species of fruit trees, but that which produces the date is not of the number. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 17: Horses and horned cattle, goats and sheep, and camels, are the common animals of the country. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 18: _Giraffa is the name by which the camelopardalis is called in the old zoological books.—The description here inserted, seems to have arisen from a blended recollection of that animal, and of the hippopotamus, whose hide is extremely tough._] [Footnote 19: In form, the houses are similar to those of Tripoli. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 20: The walls of the greatest part of the houses are built of a composition of earth and sand, and are often washed down by the heavy rains; but others are formed of the more durable materials of stones and bricks. The roofs are composed of the branches of trees, which are covered with layers of earth, and the whole building is white-washed with a species of chalk. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 21: Bornoo is situated in a flat country, on the banks of a small river. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 22: Bornoo, though a town of greater extent than Tripoli, consists of a multitude of houses, so irregularly placed that the spaces between them cannot be called streets. It is furnished with mosques, which are constructed of brick and of earth; and with schools, in which the Koran is taught, as in the principal towns of Barbary. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 23: In time of peace the Sultan always resides in the capital. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 24: Bornoo is surrounded by a wall, on which, however, there are no guards. BEN ALLI.] [Footnote 25: A small quantity of gold dust is produced in Bornoo; but the principal medium of exchange consists of pieces of a metal which has some resemblance to tin. BEN ALLI.]