the capital of Fezzan in Africa, is situated on a small river, and supplied with water from a multitude of springs and wells. Being formerly built of stone, it still retains the appellation of a Christian town; and the medley which it presents to the eye, of the wall ruins of ancient buildings, and the humble cottages of earth and sand that form the dwellings of its present Arab inhabitants, is singularly grotesque and strange. It is surrounded by a high wall, which not only affords the means of defence, but enables the government to collect, at its three gates, a tax on all goods (provisions excepted) that are brought for the supply of its people. A caravan sets out annually from Mahunta to this place; and hence the Fezzaniers themselves dispatch every year a caravan to Caïna and another to Boron. For the latitude of Mourzouk, see Fezzan in this Suppl. Dr Brookes, in his Gazetteer, places it in 15° 5' E. Long.

NOWAZZEEF, in Bengal, fixed revenue.