Of the Weftern Trovince. ^ ^ 



in the Cittadel, ere6ted upon one of thefe Eminences, having 

 a full Command of the City and Country round about It. 



In travelling betwixt Majagran and Mufly-gannim^ we are^*^-^ Gardens 

 entertained with the Profpeol of a Number of Gardens, Or- Ma'fagran 

 chards, and Country Seats, ranged, in a beautiful Variety, all gannim. ^ 

 along the Sea Shore. Λ Chain of Hills bounds Them to the 

 S. and S. E. which not only intercepts the noxious Winds, in 

 that Direction, from Thefe Plantations, but breaks out, every 

 where, in Fountains, to cherifh Them during the hotter Seafons. 



The Beauty and good Mafonry ib obfervable, even to This Muiiy-gan- 

 Time, in the Walls and Caftle to the N. W. allow us to fup-g^rW/" 

 pofe Them to have formerly belonged to fome Roman Fabrick : Λ^Εχ^ϋ.9. 

 otherwife, 1 had not the good Fortune to meet with any Thing z.'^zI'a^I'. 

 in This Place, that carries with it the leaft Appearance of the 

 antient Archite^luie. Yet both Mufly-gannim and Mafagrau 

 are fo copioufly fupplyed with Water, and fo commodioufly 

 fituated with regard to the fertil and extenfive Downs behind 

 Them; and enjoy befidesfuch a delightful Profped: of the Sea, 

 and of the rich maritime Country, to a great Diftance, before 

 Them ; that, without Doubt, they were Stations too valuable 

 to be negleded by the Romans. Tliny and Ttolemy place Their 

 Cartenna in This Direction ; and in the Itinerary^ we have the 

 fame Diftance betwixt yirfenaria and Cartenna, that I find be- 

 twixt Arzew and Thefe Places. One or other of Them there- 

 fore, nay perhaps Both, might have been formerly taken in by 

 This Colony. For, confidering Their Situations are nearly con- 

 tiguous, and the inteijacent Plantations belong indifferently 

 (as They perhaps always did) to Them Both, there is fome Pro- 

 bability at leaft of Their having had likewife the fame Intereft, 

 and having been one and the fame Community, under the Name 

 Cartenna, as Ttolemy writeth it in the plural. 



Three Leagues to the E.N.E. of Mufly-gannim there is a Kuimeeta or 

 Fountain of excellent Water, with a Heap of Ruins that en- iieiium?£xt 

 clofe It. The y4rahs call the Place \^^-^i>^ J= Kuimeeta'] AlU^'^^'^' 

 "Dead, preferving the Tradition of a bloody Battle fought near 

 It, wherein the weaker Party were all put to the Sword. The 

 Form of thefe Ruins, (not unlike fome of our old Engli^ Ca- 

 ftles) with Their Situation fourteen Miles from Cartenna, fhould 

 induce us to believe Them to be the Traces of the Lar CafteU 

 lum of the Itinerary. 



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