54 Geographic. 



nor small, with an improved and well -inhabited 

 neighbourhood, all about which, on every side, is 

 the desert wherein the Barbarians reside. 

 B. iv. p. 216. 



JJaukah filius ail Tahortam esse urbem magnam , 

 opiimini , frugibus ferlilem. 



The O. G. p. 19. 



Tahout ( lisez Tahort ) ... is a large town , well- 

 inliabited and supplied : the iuhabitans practise agri- 

 culture , etc. 



B. iv. p. 238. 



AdMesapotamiam quoque pertinet castellum (Hesii) 

 Mo sic mah , sic dictum, ut ait filius Haukali , ab an- 

 tiquodomin o Moslamah Jilio Abdebnaleki 5 quodpostea 

 nonnulli teuuerunt (immiada. 



The O. G. p. 60. 



This place is called the bysn Moselamah. They say 

 that it belonged to- Moselamah ben Abdalmulk. A 

 branch of the Ommiades is settled there. 

 B. iv. p. ?.5o. 



Basijan est urbs Churestanica (i><?/ Chouzcslanica) 

 lit ait HaUJiali Jilins , mediocris , ubifluvius dividituT 

 in duas partes. Abcsl ab Hesii Mahdiji duas dieetas , 

 quas inter ambas urbes commeatur per aquas ; par iter 

 el ab Daurak ad Basijan ; Jacilior enim ea via quam 

 per continentem. 



Pag. 248. 



Est inter Mas urbes etiam Basijan , quam ait filius 

 Uaukali mediocrem esse urbem , quam mediant dtrtmat 

 Jluvius , itnde sinl ducc di&lce adJlesn Mahdiji , super 

 aquis eundo } uti et ad Basijan ab Danrak, 



