Of the Weftern Trovince. ip 



lax, the Ifland that forms the Port of the Harpj-goone, un- 

 der which VefTels of the greateft Burthen may lye in the ut- 

 moit Safety. 



From the Mouth of the River Tafna, the Sea-Coaft, for a 

 httlevvay, has anEafterly Diredlion; after which, as far as the 

 Ras ' ^zintoure, (the Cape Figalo of our Sea-Charts) It inchnes, 

 by feveral Turnings, nine Leagues to the Northward. This re- 

 markable Winding of the Shore, from Mellach all along to 

 ^zintoure, forms a coniiderable Gulph, that is called Harpj- Harihgoone, 

 goone by the Moors, the Latunis Sinm perhaps of Mela, and rus sinus. 

 the Harefgol^ oi Leo and the later Geographers; though mif- 

 taken, I prefume, by Them All, for the Name of a City. 



The feveral "Dafjkras to the Weftward of the Tafna, are wooihafa. 

 called Wool-haja, after the Name of Their Inhabitants. The 

 Same may have been communicated by Them to the Mountain 

 mentioned by Leo \ 



Upon the weftern Banks of the Tafna, almoft contiguous to 

 the Sea, are the Ruins of the antient Siga, once a Royal-City 

 of the Numid'ian Kings*. It's prefent Name is Taclzum-hreet ,'^^^'ν.^^- 

 the Tehecritum ^ probably οι Leo ; though from His calling Te- 

 hecritum a Village, placing It upon a Rock, and aifigning the 

 Africans as the Founders of It, it will by no means anfwer to 

 Tackum-breet \ but will better agree with the Defcription Leo 

 has left us of His Harefgol. 



The Tafna, the moft confiderable River of This Province The Tafna 

 to the Weftward of the ShelUff, is compofed of feveral Branches ',/ΓΓ^Ιί/,- 

 the principal of which are the Bar-ha-ta, the Tafna, the Sik-ack, "'' ""^' "^'^* 

 and the Ijfer. The Bar-ha-ta defcends from the S.W; and, be- Barbata, 

 fore It enters the Mountains of Trara, receives, as I judge 

 from the Situation of the adjacent Parts, the River οϊ Wooje- 

 da. The Tafna, which is the moft confiderable of thefe Branches Tafna, 

 and receives the reft, continues It's Name to the Sea : and rifes 

 in the Mountains of the Beni-Snoufe\ an African Tribe, who 

 inhabit Their feveral T)afjkras about thirty Miles to the South- 



I iO" \!?N1, i^j R^i, Caput; & per Mctaph. Sumraitas cujuilibet rei, cacumen;vertex. vid. 

 Sl hind, in voce. A Cape or Head- Land. 2 //.irij^^o/ maximum atquc antiquifUmum in fcopu- 

 lo quodam mari Medlterraneo undique cindlum fuit, praeterquam in Meridie, ubi via eratquas 

 in oppidum ducebat. A Telenfino Septentrionem verfus, in 14 fitum fuit MiUiario. J. Leo. p- 

 192. y^tlas Geogr.Wul.iy. p. 212. 3 Giialhafa mons altiffimus oppido/i/i«<iiH vicinus eft. J. 

 Leo. p. 204. 4 Exc.p.o.O. p.22.E. p.23.cap.2y. \\a.Manan.Htft.Gen.ae Hijp. I.2.C.23.P.80. 

 J Tebeirhiim exiguum oppidum ab Afrh in quodam icopulo ad mare Mediterraneum extru- 

 ftum eft. J. Leo. p. 191. 



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