[Footnote 65: There is a town named _Taboo_, a considerable way to the SW of Fezzan. D’Anville writes it _Tibedou_. It seems to be the _Tabidium_ of Pliny, one of the towns conquered by the Romans, under Balbus. (Pliny, lib. v. c. 4 and 5.) Pliny says, c. 8. that “the Romans possessed the country, even to the river Niger, which separates _Africa_ from _Ethiopia_;” and gives a long list of provinces and towns subject to them. It may be conceived, that besides Fezzan, Gadamis, Taboo, &c. they possessed the fertile tract, in the line from thence to the Niger; that is, Agadez, Kashna, and perhaps Gana. It may be remarked that Pliny (c. 8) speaks of TWO _Ethiopias_; and quotes Homer, as having divided them into _Eastern_ and _Western_. One may conceive that the division between them, was the fertile tract in question, extending from Fezzan, in the line towards the Niger.] [Footnote 66: _Levata_ of Leo, page 245.] [Footnote 67: From Mourzouk to Gatron, (or Kattron,) south 54 miles; understood to be of British standard, and to include the windings of the road. Thence to Tegerhie, SSW 33 miles. To Abo 7 days; and thence to Tibesty, 3 days in an easterly direction. Finally, to Burgu, 18 days; each of which 28 days are reckoned 18 B. miles _by the road_. See above, page 107. It has been calculated in page 155, that Teghery, by the general result of the authorities, should be placed S 26 W, 68 G. miles from Mourzouk. From thence, the 10 days to Tibesty, in an easterly direction, may be taken at about 140 G. miles; which meeting the line of 7 days, equal to 98 G. miles from Temissa, (See Proceed. Afr. Assoc. 1790, chap. iv.) places Tibesty at 133 miles SE by E. from Mourzouk.] [Footnote 68: The _Troglodytæ_ were found in every place where nature or art had prepared recesses for them; and are always gifted with superior swiftness of foot. In particular, in Pliny, lib. vii. c. 2. and in Hanno’s Voyage, &c. Considering that _Fezzan_, under the name of _Garamanta_, was one of the earliest known inland countries of Africa, to the Greeks, it is not altogether improbable that the first idea of the characteristic swiftness of the _Ethiopian Troglodytæ_, was derived from thence. And considering also the false idea entertained by the Greeks, of the bearing of the western side of Africa, Hanno might have supposed the source of the river _Lixus_, the reported seat of _his_ Troglodytæ, to have been situated in the centre of Africa.] [Footnote 69: Horneman was told by the Augilans, that the Tibbo of Febabo, or Burgu, (it is not clear which) spoke a language that resembled the _whistling_ of birds. He also takes occasion to remark, what Herodotus says concerning the language of the Ethiopians, hunted by the _Garamantes_; but probably without referring these last to the country of Fezzan.]