The plates are selected from a large portfolio of drawings, made by the Author with the Camera Lucida, and finished on the spot. His own narrative might have been more acceptable to the scientific reader, had he not lost some observations concerning the sources, together with a small collection of minerals and insects, and a few plants collected in the Oasis and the Desert.

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