ON AFRICA. 475 or water abounding in gold. Jinnee, which is on or near the shore of this lake, (1 call it a lake because it is fresh water,) abounds in gold, and is renowned throughout Africa for the ingenuity of its artificers in that metal, insomuch that they acknowledge the superiority of Europeans in all arts except that of gold work. There are some specimens of Jinnee gold trinkets, very correctly delineated in the recent interesting work of " Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzclarence's Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England," p. 496.

Page I87, " Yahoodie, a place of great trade.'* This place is reported to be inhabited by one of the lost tribes of Israel, possibly an emigration from the tribe of Judah. Yahooda, in African Arabic, signifies Judah. Yahoodee signifies Jew.

It is not impossible, that many of the lost tribes of Israel may be found dispersed in the interior regions of Africa, when we shall become better acquainted with that Continent ; it is certain, that some of the nations that possessed the country eastward of Palestine when the Israelites were a favoured nation, have emigrated to Africa.

An emigration of the Amorites * are now in possession of the declivity of the Atlas Mountains, westward of the sanctuary'' of MuleyDriss, and in the neighbourhood of the ruins of Pharaoh ; they live in encampments, consisting of * They are called Ite'amor, Amor-it€.

' ** Vide Jackson's Account of Marocco, chap. viii. enlarged edition.