In the Country of the Weflern-Mooxs. 17 



the Bem-Zeneffel, (or Jefneten" as Leo calls them) a no leftBf«'Zf»#/ 

 powerful Tribe of Kahyles, who, fecure in their Numbers and 

 Situation, have not hitherto been obliged to pay any Tribute 

 to the Tingitan'ians. Ttolemy encourages us to fearch for the Pontes 

 Chalcorych'ian Mountains, and the Seat of the antient Herpidi-^-' emu' 

 tarn at this Place. tani"°£^c. 



We iliould not leave This Country without obferving, that,^^^/; tra- 

 during the long Reign of the late Muley Ifjmael, Thefe, ^?>'^fj!!i Jf£. 

 well as the Parts of It more immediately influenced by the CV2-'^y"'"""^^'' 

 p'ltal, \vere under fo ftrid a Government and Regulation, that, 

 notwithftanding the Numbers of Arahs who are every where 

 in the Way, intent, every one of Them, upon Plunder and Ra- 

 pine; yet a Child, (according to Their Manner of fpeaking) 

 might Jafely carry a Tlece of Money upon his Hand from one 

 End of the Kingdom to another, whilft the Merchant travelled 

 from Sake to Woojeda, and from Tanger to Taffilett, without 

 Danger, or Moleftation. 



CHAR III. 



Geographical Ohfervations upon the Sea-Coafl of that Part 



of the Mauritania Ciefarieniis, "which is called at pre- 



fent the Wefiern Province or the Province of Tlemian- 



LEav I Ν G Mai fear da and Woof e da at fome Diftance to th^rhe general 

 Weftward, we enter upon Twunt and the Mountains ofr^pSi'l 

 Trara. Thcfe are the Confines of This Province to the Weft, 

 as the River Ma-faffran, at near two hundred Miles Diftance, 

 will bound It to the Eaft. The Whole is almoft equally diftri- 

 buted into Mountains and Valleys ; and had It been better fup- 

 plied with Rivers and Fountains, would be a more delightful, 

 as It was always accounted a more fertil Diftriol ' in general, than 

 the eaftern Part of This Kingdom. 



*&0»TheKiii)/« oryifrkauTribes have generally £tm [Uil] or βίκ/ prefixed to the Names 

 of their refpcdive Heads or Founders; as Beni-Zenejfel, Beni-Madooni &c. Whereas [oJ^l 

 Welled is the Term made ufc ofamongft the Arah; as Wei led- Haifa, Welled-Zehe &c. Both 

 have the fame Signification and denote the Sons or Offfpring o( Zenejfel, Haifa, &c. or the 

 Zeneffeiides, Halves &c. as the antient Greeks, and Romans would have called Them, i Bent 



agro virifque opulentior &c. Sail. Bell. Jug. 5.I9. p. 278. 



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