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fifty Miles, lyes beyond the faid Mountains towards the Mul- 

 looi'ah, the Malva ' of the old Geography. 



That remarkable Chain of Hills,which 1 fometimes find placed ^''^^^/«."«ίΛ^ί 



1 1 r» 7 Λ η • o/Atlas, 



betwixt thefe Countries, and the baJoara, and lometnnes with- 

 in the Tell^ I take to be the Aflrixis'" oiOrofit^s, and a Conti- 

 nuation or Part of Mount Atlas ^ : though they are not always 

 of that extraordinary Height, or Bignefs, which have been at- 

 tributed to them by Antiquity*. Thofe Parts of them which 

 I have feen, are rarely, if ever equal to fome of the greater 

 Mountains of our own Ifland ; and I queftion, whether they 

 can any where iland in Competition with either the Alpes, or 

 the Appenn'ines. If we conceive a Number of Hills, ufually 

 of the perpendicular Height of four, five, or fix Hundred Yards, 

 with an eafy Afcent, and feveral Groves of Fruit and Forreft- 

 Trees, rifing up in a Succefilon of Ranges one behind another •, 

 and if to this Profpeft, we here and there add a rocky Preci- 

 pice of a fuperiour Eminence and difficult Accefs, and place 

 upon the Side, or Summit of it, a mud- walled 2)^/?>^r^^ [=j;^o] 

 or Village of the Kah)iles\ we fliall then have ajuft and lively 

 Idea of thefe Mountains, without giving Heed to the nodlurnal 

 Flames, melodious Sounds, or the lafcivious Revels of fuch 

 imaginary Beings, as the Antients ' have in a peculiar Manner 

 attributed to this Place. 



Some of the old Geographers have obferved,that thefe Moun- ThOyns&c 

 tains were called T)yris and Ad'iris, or Dyr'im and Adder'im ^ by "uenu-, or 

 the Indigejjie or firft Inhabitants ; but have not attempted to give 

 us the Signification of thefe Words. Bochart ^ obferves, that 

 Atlas was called T)yris by the Thosnictans, perhaps from [ tin ' ] 

 Addir, great or mighty ; and upon the Coaft of the Tingitania^v^Q 

 find Ruffadirum [Ρϋατα'Λρον] mentioned by Mela%Trmf\Ttolem/\ 

 and the Itinerary'' \ the fame Name the Moors give at prefent 

 to Cape Bon, the Tromontorium Mercurii ; and by which they 

 would denote a very large and confpicuous Cape, or Fore-Land. 

 Dyrim therefore, by fupplying \_^y^ ] Tor, [ ^=- J Had, or [ S^ ] 

 Jihbel, might fignify the Mountains of Dyris, or Atlas, or 

 fimply, the Great Mountains only, or that remarkable Chain of 

 them, which, in the Phrafe ^iOrofim, divided the fruitful Land 



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