^6 Geographical Ohfervations upon the Sea Coaji 



Welled You- Salt; here likewife the Welled Tou-noofe have their Encamp- 



noofe. ' J ς: 



ments. 

 Tciinis!"^ Tnifs or Tennis hath a low dirty Situation, ( as the Name ' 

 may probably infinuate) lying lixteen Miles to the E.N.E. of 

 the Zour el Ha-mam, at a fmall Diftance from the Sea. Be- 

 fore the Conquefts of the Barharoff^, It was the Metropolis of 

 one of the petty Kingdoms of this Country; though a few mi- 

 ferable Houfes, built in the fame Manner with Thofe, before 

 defcribed, at Maifearda, are all that remain of It at prefent. 

 A little Brook runs winding by Them^which afterwards emptieth 

 It felf, over againft a fmall adjacent Ifland, into the Sea. Tnifs 

 hath been a long Time famous for the great Quantity of Corn 

 ihipped off from thence to Chriflendom : but the Road before 

 It, lying too much expofed to Wefterly and Northerly Winds, 

 VeiTels are frequently caft away, as at Hammeefe and Magrowa 

 unlefs They fall in with a Seafon of calm Weather. 

 Tktch^rsatr The Moors have a Tradition, that the TniJJians were for- 

 tanu. " ' merly in fuch Reputation for Sorcery, that Tharaoh fent for 

 the wifeft of Them to difpute Miracles with Mofes. They 

 are ftill the greateft Cheats of all This Country, and as little 

 to be trufted as Their Road. Hammet Ben Ufeph, a late neigh- 

 bouring Ma-rah-hutt^ hath thus' branded the Place and Inha- 

 bitants. 



Tennis is built upon a Ί>ηηι1θίΙΙ, 



The Water of it is Blood, 



jind the jitr is Toifon, 



And Hammet Ben Ufeph doth not come there. 



Tnifs, The Sanfon and others make Tnifs the Julia defarea of the An- 

 ίίί p°9?D. tients ; though the Ifland, I have mentioned, feems to be the 



ι ou^A'i (Tennis) /iriwi to bethef*me Name with the Tanis c/ Egypt, from f'W (Tin) Clay, 

 er Mud ; rendered by the Greeks τηκίπ», from ■mADt, a Word of the like Signification in their Lan- 

 guage. 



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