4 Geographical Ohfervations 



The Length Sanfon\ in bounding this Kingdom with the Rivers Muhia 

 "^'^' and Barbar, as he calleth theMullooiah and the Zaine, maketh it 



nine hundred Miles from Eaft to Weft ; De la Croix \ feven hun- 

 dred and twenty ; Luyts \ by reckoning forty eight Miles and an 

 half for one of his Degrees of Longitude, allowethittobeabout 

 fix hundred and thirty; whereas others* confine it to a lefs 

 Extent. But according to the exafteft Obfervations I could 

 make my felf, or receive from others, I find the true Length 

 from Tijuunt to Ta-harha^ to be only about four hundred and 

 fixty Miles ; the Firft of thefe Places being fituated, below the 

 Mountains oiTrara, in o°. i6' W.Long, from London \ and the 

 Latter, upon the River Za'ine, in 9°. 16'. to the Eaft. 

 The Breadth. Thcre IS not the like Difagreement among our Geographers, 

 in Relation to the Breadth; though none of them^ make it 

 lefs than one hundred and fifty Miles, where it is narroweft, 

 nor more than two hundred and forty, where it is broadeft. 

 The Breadth indeed, though much ftiort of thefe Accounts, is 

 not every where the fame : for near Tlem-fan, it is not above 

 forty Miles from the Sahara to the Sea Coaft ; near the Sources 

 of the Rivers Sigg, Hahra, and Shelliff, it is about fixty ; which, 

 in the weftern Part of this Kingdom, may be taken at a Mean, 

 for the Extent of what the Arahs call [ 7>//, J-s ] or Land pro- 

 per for Tillage. But to the Eaft ward of Algiers, the Breadth 

 of this Kingdom is more confiderable ; and in the Meridians par- 

 ticularly oiBoujeiahyJijel and Bona, it is never lefs than a hun- 

 dred Miles : nay fometimes more ; as from Jijel, in N. Lat. 3 6\ s 5•', 

 toLwo-taiahy fituated among theMountainsof-^//^, in 34°. 5-0', 

 TheOommon The Domlnion which the Algerines have beyond the Tell, 

 efthe k\g^- Qj- ^jjg more advanced Parts of the Mountains oi Atlas\ is 



fines m the -' 



Sahara. ycry unccrtain and precarious : for which Reafon I have fixed 

 the proper Boundaries and Limits of this Kingdom that Way, 



indomita, inauil, inhumana, beftial : y por tanto tuuo porcierto razon, cl que da pocos anos 

 aca acofttimbro llavur a efia terra, Barbaria, pues &c. D. Haedo de la captmdad, en fti Topogr. 

 e H'lfior. de Argel. p. 126. Vallad, 1612. i Le Royaume d'y^/^freil fepare vers Γ Occident du 

 Royaume de Fez., par les Riv. de Zhas et de Mulvia : vers Γ Orient eft fepare de celuy de 

 Tunis, par la Riv. Guadil Barbar: le midy eft couvert des montagnes d' Atlas, qui le feparent 

 du Scgclmejfe, du Tegorar'in, et de Zeb parties de Biledulgcr'id. Sa longueur d' Occident 

 en Orient approche de 300 lieues j fa largeur eft de yo, 60 ou de 77 lieuiis. L'^frique en plu- 

 fteurs cartes nouvelles &c. p. 23. par le S' Sanfon d' Abbeville &c. a Paris. i6%i. 2 Son eten- 

 due de Γ Eft a Γ Oiieft eft de 240 lieues;& du SudauNord de 70 en ii plus grande longueur. 

 Nouvclle methode pour aprendre la Geographie ZJniverf. par le Sieur de la Croix. Tom. y. p. 28c. 

 a Paris 1705•. 3 Ke^nam yilgerianumlon^'iiRme ab occafu in ortum diffunditur, i gradu cir- 

 citer XVni ad ufque gradum XXXI : at ab auftro in boream, ubi vel latiifimum eft, latitudi- 

 nem non habet IV graduum. jf. Luyts Introd. ad Geograpbiam. p. 669. Traj. ad Rhemini. 1692. 

 4 Vid. Molls Geography Part. 2. p. 1^6. Lond.1722. Atlas Geograph. Vol. IV. p. 182. j Vid. 

 Not.2. &c . 6 Exc. pag.2. E. p. 30. A. A Barbaria ab auftio limes eft Biledulgendia, \ qua 

 mens Atlas ipfum dividit. Luyu Introd. ψ.662. jjp. 



