Of Algiers in general s 



upon the northern Skirts of the Sahara. Some of the Villages 

 indeed oiZaah^ and others ' likewife, that have a more diftant 

 Situation from the Capital, pay regularly their annual Taxes, or 

 at leaft give fome Tokens of SubmiiTion to the Turks : but the 

 other Comnaunities are independent ; and the Bedoween [i^y^^ ] 

 Arabs of thefe Parts, the Nomades ' or Scenitce ' as they were 

 antiently called, are feldom to be brought under Contribution ; 

 taking always a particular Care to be upon their Guard, or at a 

 Diftance, when the Turkifo Armies are abroad. 



This Part of the Country, and indeed the whole Traft ^^f;f,2aT\f' 

 Land that lyes betwixt the Atlantic Ocean and Egypt, is by ^''y ^'""^'y- 

 moft of the modern Geographers called Biledulgerid, a Name 

 they feem to have borrowed from the Blaid al Jeridde [ cv).> 

 <w^-i] of the Arabians, who thereby fignifie, TheDry Country: 

 though, if we except the Jeridde, a fmall Portion of it, that 

 is lituated on this Side the lelTer Syrtis, and belongs to the Tu- 

 nifeens-, all the reft of it is known by no other general Name 

 than the Sahara, or \}j^^ ] Sah-ra ; amongft thofe Arabs at 

 leaft, whom I have converfed with. 



The Epitomizer of Edriii^ the Nubian Geographer * as he The Provhues 



' itr-ii ^of this Kirig- 



is commonly called, places both the Cities and Villages oidom, 

 this Part oi Bar bar/, and thofe of the moreWeftern and Eaftern 

 Diftriols of it, in his Third Climate, without any particular Di- 

 viiioninto either Kingdoms or Provinces. But Abulfeda^, be- 

 fides giving us in Ttole?nys Method, the Longitudes and Lati- 

 tudes of the moft confiderable Cities, is more full and diftinot 

 in his general Divilion ; and that Part of this Country I am now 

 treating of, will take in the whole of what he calls al Mag-reb 

 al-Awfat [ ^=--^51 ^>^*Μ ] and a Portion likewife of both his 

 alMagreb al Ackfa [ej-«=»5J^ ^>*-»-^\] and [ 5■<^ii^»^ ] Afrikeah. Gra- 

 maye\ and the more modern Geographers^, divide this King- 



I Teucarte i jo leucis ab Argcla a\\\.3ins,Huergla 2.00 : iitrumq•, fubjugavit SaU impera to trlbuto 

 huic 30, illi quindecim Nigrorum annuatim. Gramaje Africa ίΙΙιφταΐ Λ l.i.c.zd. 2 Exc.p.2^. 

 Cap. 26. P-3I• A.B. 3 Scetiitx.-vagl-'ii tabernaculis [ώτΐ τ «»ν«ν] cognominaci, quje ciliciis me- 

 tantur,ubi libuit.P/i» l.(i.c.28./So/iH.c.33. 4 Geographia Nubienfis &ς.(Γινα Liber Relaxationis 

 animi curiofi) recensex Arabico inLatiniim verla i Gabriele Sionita &c. Paris. l6ip. ^ Al Ma- 

 greb (_jj.k4.]\ five Regio Α/τ'ηα occidcntalis,tiifariam d ividitur. i . pars occidentalior appellacur 

 Almagreb al ΛΙ<[α ^j^»;n)\ <_^^λ4.3\ i.e. ulterior & remotior & incipit \ litore maris Almobit 

 i.e. Atlantici pergendo ad Tekmfan ab occafu in ortum &c. pars lecunda dicitur al Magreb al 

 Awfat k.jL..N^\ (_^i>3\ i. e. media & initium fumit ab orientali latere ϋκ Waharan, <\nx i 

 Telemfan unius diei itinere diftac & extenditur ulquc ad ultimos fines KcgniBejiaiah orientem 

 verfus. Pars tertia, eaq; oricntalior vocatur Afrikeah s-aAtI,;•»^ > & extenditur ad Barka, ufq; ad 

 limitcs Provinciarum Mefr. Abulf.Geogr. ex Tradud. V.Cl. J. Gagnier. 6 Regnum Alge- 

 rienfe dividitur in Provinciam Gez.eiranam, Btijeianam, Gigellaiutm, Conflantitu, & Bon£ i parte 

 orientali, in occidental! in Sargelenfem, Tenez.enfe7n, tortus magni, Harfgoliam. Gram. Alfr'tc. 

 illuflr. L.7. c.ir. & 15. 7 Nous le diviferons en cinque parties, done celle d'/ilger fera Ic 



Β milieu; 



