ON AFRICA. 457 these things, can doubt the accuracy of his intelligence respecting Sudan ? I even regard his orthography as the standard of correctness, and am surprised that any person should continue to write Tombuctoo instead of Timbuctoo, or Fez instead of Fas.

I am inclined to believe that Adams has been at Timbuctoo, though I do not consider it as proved ; but, supposing that he has, and that I wished to become acquainted with that city, would I apply for information to an illiterate slave, who was confined within narrow precincts ? Or would I rely upon the united testimony of twenty persons of education, who had each a wider field of observation ?

I have read " Jackson's Account of Marocco'* twice through, at different periods, with great attention ; and I do most heartily join in the confidence expressed by the enlightened and judicious author, that, in proportion as the interior of Africa shall be more known, the truth of his account of it will be made evident.

Catherine Hutton* Hints for the Civilisation of Barhary and Diffusion of Commerce, March 16, 1818.

Algiers, and the territory belonging to it, is governed by despotic Turks, the refuse of the Ottoman troops ; who maintain their power over the Moors and Arabs of the plains (who are the