l6 Geographical Ohfervationi upon the Sea Coafi 



like our oXaEnglifi Caftles^ with Battlements and Loop-Holes; ^ 

 whereas the other is formed into diverfe Angles and Abutt- 

 ments, as the Figure of the Eminence, upon which It is fi- 

 tuated, would permit. The Specula ', taken Notice of by Go- 

 mecim, was probably at This Place : as the Vale, I have de- 

 fcribed, to the Weftward of It, will be His yingufliie, and Se- 

 des, {uiQTack Saddle, as our Mariners call It,) through which 

 the Spaniards were to make Their AiTaults upon Warran. 

 The Gates \ am to obfcrvc further, that Warran hath only two Gates, 

 '" both of which open to the Valley. The Gate of the Sea, (for 

 fo They call the neareft of Them to the Port ) hath a large 

 fquare Tower built over It; which, upon Occafion, might be 

 converted into a Fort. But, adjoyning to the Upper Gate, 

 called the Gate of Tlemfan, there is an oblong Battery, with 

 feveral Ports for Cannon. The Cafauha or Cittadel, raifed up- 

 on the higheft Part of the City towards the N.W. was, though 

 without much Order, mounted in all the Angles of It with 

 Cannon; whilft the lower and oppoilte Corner, towards the 

 N.E. and the Mers" el Seigh-hre, was defended by a Regular Ba- 

 ft'ton. From all which Circumftances, Warran muft be confi- 

 dered as a Place of fome Confequence: and, had not a fur- 

 prizing Confternation infatuated the whole Country, upon the 

 firil landing of the Spaniards, would have given no fmall Check 

 to Their late fortunate Enterprise. 

 The Churches Thc Spaniards, when They firft poflelTed This Place, built 

 the spani- ^ feveral beautiful Churches and other Edifices, in the Manner of 

 the Roman Architeoture, but of lefs Strength and Solidity. 

 They have imitated the Romans further, in carving upon the 

 Frizes, una other convenient Places of Them,ieveral Infcriptions, 

 in large Charaolers, and in Their own Language, Over the 

 Portal of one of the Churches, which, upon Warrant being 

 recovered, in the Year MDCCVIII. by the Moors, w^as once 

 again a Place of Jewifj VVorfhip, we have the following In- 

 fcription, that may ferve for a Specimen of the Lapidary Stile 

 of the Spanipj Nation. 



I Spectilii qux Facts dicitiir — eft In praerupto clivo qua voflr'is afioifus ad Oranum erat fu- 

 ttirus. Locus ipfe arduus eft, & undiqtie rupibub inacccifis inviiis, prsterquam quibufdam 

 j^ngufliis, quK ex Forma, Sedes ab Incolis appcllatur. Juxta has Specula quam diximus con- 

 lurgit, qucB ex alteri parte Oranum, Aierjalcabn ex altera profpicit, face continuo de Node 

 prxluccnte Gr£corum Phar'ts non admodum abfimilis. Scqucbatur ftatim Oranum urbs celfo 

 quodam in colle polka, mccnibus & turribiis ac loci fitu miinita, qux mari altera parte allui- 

 tHir, altera varus pomariis ac irriguis fontibus cinda, in fui cupidinem qucmvis regem pelli- 



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