Note 3 — Chapter IV
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The capital of Fezzan is situated on the banks of a small river, and is also supplied with water from a multitude of springs and wells.
Being formerly built with stone, it still retains the appellation of a Christian Town; and the medley which it presents to the eye, of the vast ruins of antient buildings, and of the humble cottages of earth and sand that form the dwellings of its present Arab inhabitants, is singularly grotesque and strange.
Ben Alli.