TIMBUCTOO. iS pound of Barbary, which weighs twenty Spanish dollars ; they have also half and quarter pounds ; by these weights is sold milk, rice, butter, &c, as well as by the measure. The weights are of wood or iron under the inspection of a magistrate called in Barbary mtasseb, i, e. inspector of weights and measures, and if the weights are found deficient, he punishes the offender immediately ; they have also a quintal or cwt. They have a wooden measure called a mhoad equal to the small mhoad of Barbary, where a mhoad of wheat weighs about 24 lb. Both the weights and measures are divided into J, |, | and T-lg-.

MANUFACTURES.

The black natives are smiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, and masons, but not weavers. The Arabs in the neighbourhood are weavers, and make carpets resembling those of Fas and of Mesurata, where they are called telisse "" ; they are of wool, from their own sheep, and camels' hair. The bags for goods, and the tents, are of goats' and camels' hair ; there are no palmetto trees in that country. Their thread ", needles, scissars, &c. come from Fas : most of their * The mhoad is no longer used in Barbary. There is a krubef of which sixteen are equal to a saa, which, when filled with good wheat, weighs lOOlbs. equal to 119lbs. English weight.

" Telissoy sing. ; Telisse, plur.

" To Fas they are brought from England through Gib raltar and Mogodor.

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