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ream of water equally cool and sweet. This district
9 possessed by the last of those, who inhabit the des-
rts beyond the centre and ruder parts of Libya. The
Immonians, who possess the temple of the Theban
upiter, are the people nearest from this place to
Thebes, from which they are distant a ten days' jour-
ley. There is an image of Jupiter at Thebes, as I
lave before remarked, with the head of a goat. The
Ammonians have also a fountain of water, which at
the dawn of morning is warm, as the day advances it
chills, and at noon becomes excessively cold. When
it is at the coldest point, they use it to water their
gardens : as the day declines, its coldness diminishes;
at sunset, it is again warm, and its warmth gradually
increases till midnight, when it is absolutely in a
boiling state. After this period, as the morning ad­
vances, it grows again progressively colder. This is
called the fountain of the son.

CLXXXII. Passing onward beyond the Ammoni-
ans, into the desert for ten days more, another hill of
salt occurs: it resembles that which is found amongst
the Ammonians, and has a spring of water: the place
is inhabited, and called Augila, and here the Nasa-
mones come to gather their dates.

CLXXXIII. At another ten days' distance from the
Augilae, there is a second hill of salt with water, as
well as a great number of palms, which, like those
before described, are exceedingly productive: this
place is inhabited by the numerous nation of the
Gar am antes; they cover the beds of salt with earth,
and then plant it. From them to the Lotophagi is a
very short distance; but from these latter, it is a
journey of thirty days to that nation among whom is
a species of oxen, which walk backwards whilst they
are feeding; their horns are so formed that they can­
not do otherwise; they are so long before, and curved
in such a manner, that if they did not recede as they
fed, they would stick in the ground; in other respects
they do not differ from other animals of the same
genus, unless we except the thickness of their skins.
These Garamantes, sitting in carriages drawn by four
horses, give chase to the Ethiopian Troglodytes, who,