468 VARIOUS LETTERS graphy in his account of Marocco, Timbuctoo, &c. published in 1809.

The late account of Mr. Bowdich's mission to Ashantee has been the first to corroborate this author in this respect ; and Lieut.-Colonel Fitzclarence has confirmed it with this additional observation, in his Journal of a Route, &c. page 493 : " Upon enquiring about Tombuctoo the Hage laughed at our pronunciation, the name of the city being Timbuctoo/* The next improvement in African geographical orthography, will probably be the conversion of Fez into Fas (for there is absolutely no more reason for calling it Fez than there has been for calling Timbuctoo, Tombuctoo), this word being spelled in Arabic with the letters Fa, Alif, and Sin, which cannot be converted into any other orthography but Fas ; the same argument would hold with various other words spelled correctly by this author, an accurate elucidation of which might encroach too much upon your valuable pages. 1 shall therefore briefly state, that in page 48G of Colonel Fitzclarence's Journal, the name of the Moorish gentleman to whose care the sons of the Emperor of Marocco, Muley Soliman, were confided, is stated to be El Hadge Talib ben Jelow : this is incorrect orthography, there is no such name in the Arabic language as Jelonso, it is a barbarism ; ben Jelow signifies ben Jelule, and the proper name is Fl Hage Taleb ben Jelule, Page 494. Behur Soldan is evidently another