Of the TVeftern Ψ r ovine e. 4.7 



Rivers: to defcribe the reit of them in Order, or as they arer/;? Motm. 

 litiiated with Refpeft to Thefe Rivers and the correfpondentra.'" 

 Part of the Sea Coaft, we are to return to the Mountains of 

 Trara, which are a beautiful and conipicuous Knot of Emi- 

 nences, furnifliing the Markets of Tlem-Jan with all Manner 

 of Fruit. 



Nedroyna ' or Nedrome is placed hard by Thefe Mountains, Nedrome, or 

 a little to the S. E. oiTivunt. It is remarkable for nothing ^^Y.p.u.c. 

 elfe at prefent befides It's Potteries ; though the Fruitfulnefs of 

 the circumjacent Country and the fine Situation, iliould induce 

 us to believe It to have been formerly a Place of greater Con- 

 fequence; the Celama, or Urhara perhaps, oiTtolemy. 



Seven Leagues to the S. E. of Nedrome, are the Mountains Beni-snoufe. 

 of the Beni Snonje, in as great Repute for the Goodnefs of Their 

 Figs and Pomegranates, as the Bern /5«(9/^ Themfelves are noted 

 for the Number of Their Mud-walled Villages. Of Thefe, Tef• Tefoa. 

 zra is the moft confiderable ; though we cannot well receive 

 It for the Aflac'ilis oiTtolemj, which will be more convenient- 

 ly fixed at another Place. 



Five Leagues to the S. S. E. of the Mouth of the Tafna, isTiemfan. 

 the City Tretnefen, as the modern Geographers write It ; The 

 [ uUx*i5 ] Tekmfan or Tlem-Jan according to the Pronunciation 

 of the Moors, and ylrahs. It is lltuated upon a rifing Ground, 

 below a Range of rocky Precipices, the Sachratain (as we may Sachratdn. 

 take Them to be) o'iEdrifi^ and upon the firft Ridge of Them, 

 (for there lyeth another much higher to the Southward) we 

 have a large Strip of level Ground, that burits out, in every 

 Part of It, with Fountains. Thefe, uniting by Degrees, into little 

 Streams, ίλ\\ afterwards in a Variety of Cafcades in Their Ap- 

 proaches to Tlem-Jan. The Annajrani ' oiEdr'ift feems to have Annafrani. 

 been made by the Weftermoft of Thefe Fountains, which ftill 



I Ned-Rom.i in fpatioilllimo campo extruLlum,diflat i montc duobiis fere milliaribus,atqiie 

 huic vicinum quoddam flumcn non admodum latum. Scriptum reliqiiciunt iilius temporis 

 Hiftoriographi ad iinum eundemque quo Roma a^dificata fuit modum, unde & nomcn [ Ned 

 en'im apud Arabcs idem prorfus ztqac fimilis nobis fignificat ] deduc'tum aibitrancur. y. Leu. 

 p.ioi. 2 Telemfan componitur duabus urbibus muro diltindis ; luibec a mcridie niontem, 

 qui vocatur S^ichrutain, [i.e. duo Saxa] atque in ifto monte contra niL-ridionaleai urbis plagam 

 porredo funt vines : & ad ejus radices molendinje fecus ingentem rivum aquse dulcis, rapi- ^, 



dsque, qui rivus appellatur Rivus Annafrani; [i.e. Chr'iflUni ; ] ad hunc rivum extructa lunt 

 monaileria, oratoria, aliaque Religioforum aedificia, cum viridariis amplilfimis ; & nomina- 

 tur ibi rivus ille Alfuara [i.e. Scaturiginis] & inde ad urbem ufque fe extcndic. Non longe 

 ab eadem urbc cxtat fons Celebris, fons Om labia [ i.e. Matris yohannis] dictus, e quo rivus 

 in urbem influens concluditur in lacum, ac turn difpenfatur in domes, irrigationcs hortoruni, 

 balnea, cauponcs & fimilia. Geogr. Nubien. p. 79. 3 Vid.Not, ut iiipra, 



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