1837.] AbA.Namud-IRharNm. 167 Journal; for M. Linant there gis-es the pOSitiOll of the junction of the two rivers as 15? 34' N. lat., and 3'? 30' $8" E. long.* Mr. Perring, a civil engineer in the employment of Mohammed 'All Pasha, who kindly undertook the construction of my map, pointed out the discrepancy between these observations; and we immediately saw M. Linant on the subject, when he told us that he considered the list fllrnished to me, from which I took all the fised points, to lbe the most (leserving of reliance, because he carefully looked over and correctetl his observations after his return to Cairo, and subsequently to his sending his pa}?ers to the African Association.

Khartum (the Proboscis) is situated on the W. bank of the Blue River, alvout 11 mile from its junction with the Bahr el AlJyad. It is the seat of government of the Beled-es-sudan, and the present governor is Khurshid Pasha. It was a small village shen A1ohammed 'Ali suledued the kingdom, but has risen rapidly into importance at the expense of Shendi and Sennar, and is now a place of considerable trade, being convenient as a rendezvous for the slave-caravans from Abyssinia, Sennctlr, anal Kordofan. It contains 15,000 inhabitants, including about 1600 sol(liers and their families. Parts of it are regularly built. Many of the houses are large and isolated, enclosed by a garden. They, as well as I(hurshid Pasha's palace, which is by no means striking, are built of sun-burnt bricks. The buzars are irregular? small, and confined, and, when the troops are absent, extremely illsupplied. The principal articles of consumption are shoes, calicoes, printed goods, suvar, rice, broad cloth, pistol-belts, sa(ldles, worked sa(ldle-cloths, a little tea, crockery, hardsare, qnishmish,t kamar-ad-datn, } Ac., an(3 a corlsiderablJle trade in sla es is carried on both by auction and prisate contract. Just outside the bazAr is the market for vegetables, bread, fruit, sugar-cane, butter, dates, grain, straw, grease for the hea(l, &c. &c. Alld here stands the fraxne to which criminals are suspentled when esecuted, complete with rings and accommodation for three persons. The land upon which Khartum is built, as well as that wllich surrounds the town, is rich allus7ial soil, similar to the deposit of the Nile. The ground is flat an(l without trees. The banks of the river at the season of lo+v water are about 30 feet in height, and I should think, from their appearance, that the average lise of the river here is about 20 feet. During this, my first stay, at Khartuln, the mercury in the thermoineter never stood in the daytime below 7S?, but on the 10th of February it rose to 90?. Feb. l l. I left Khartum to procee(l 1lp the Blue River, E(hurshid Pasha having pros7ided me with an excellent boat * Vol.ii,p.171,-Lollg.32?41tis adopted in themapfromBruce'sobservationsat Halfayeh. t Dried apricot. + The pulp of apricots spread out and dried,