Of the Weflern Province. 



4-9 



Time of Ednfi\ Each of. Thefe might be confidered as a 



Diftinot City, being of a Square or oblong Figure, enclofed with 



a high Wall, of the fame Strudure with that of the City. About 



the Year MDCLXX. Hajfan, then Dey of Algiers, laid moft 



of This City in Ruins, as a Punifhment for the DifaiFedion of 



the Inhabitants at that Time; fo that there is not above Qr^^rhc Extent of 



fixth Part remaining of the old Tlemfan, which, as I compute,^'' 



might have been four Miles in Circuit. 



Among Thefe Ruins, particularly in the Eaft Part of the City, '^''"■^ "f f^^ 

 we meet with feveral Shafts of Pillars and other Fragments o^^luaHre^" 

 Roman Antiquities. In the Walls of an old Mofque, I faw a 

 Number of Altars dedicated to the Dii Manes, The following 

 was the only legible Infcription. 



^ 



7^ 



D. M. S. 



M. TREBIVS 



ABVLLVS VIX. 



AN. LV. M. TRE 



BIVS lANVARIVS 



FRATRI CARISSIMO 



FECIT. 



i£ 



Gramaye- informeth us, that RaUi Abraham had feen feve- 

 ral Medals, dug up in This Place, infcribed Tremis. Col. a 

 City, I prefume, not known to the old Geographers : for 77- 

 mice ' (probably from fome fuppofed Affinity in the Name, ) 

 hath been generally taken for Tlemfan. Yet provided Tejai- 

 lah proves to be the antient Aflacilis, (as may by and by ap- 

 pear probable) Timice, in lying half a Degree beyond It to the 

 Eaftward, cannot fo well agree with This Situation as the La- 

 nigara oiTiolemy. There is fome Room likewife to conjedure, 



I Vid.NOt.2.^47. in principio. 2 Rabbinus yihahum addebat varia fe vidilTe numifmata in 

 lubmb^mend effofla, cum infcriptione TREMIS COL.Gramaye yifrlc. Uluftm.c.zK. 3 Vid. 

 yff//ti Gio^i•. VoI.IV. p.313. J J J } 3 



Tlemfan, or 

 Lanigara. 

 Exc. p. I I.e. 



Ν 



that 



