Of the Weflern Trovmce. s ? 



where They border upon the River Hahrah, are called Roma- 

 leah ; perhaps from The [ ^v rummel ] fandy Quality of the 

 Soil. 



ElCallah, the great Market of this Country for Carpets andEi cdiah, 

 Burnoofes, lyeth about four Leagues to the S.E. of Thefe Plains^ lJi o/ap- 

 and eight to the S. S. E. of Mufty-ganmm. It is a dirty ill con- p.'li.b. ""'" 

 trived Town, without any Drains or Caufeways, built, as the 

 Name* imports, upon an Eminence, and in the Midft of a 

 Chain of other Mountains. There are feveral Villages of the 

 fame Nature and in a like Situation round about It, all of Them 

 employed in the fame Manufaftures. The Turks have here a 

 fmall Garrifon and Citadel ; and, from fome large Stones and 

 Pieces of Marble, that are here and there to be met with, we 

 have fome Reafon to believe It to have been formerly a City 

 of the Romans, the Gitlui or Apfar perhaps of Ttolemj. T)ap~ 

 per ' and Sa?ifon make It His Atoa or Urhara ; but both Thefe 

 Places are too near the Meridians of the River ^jffura and the 

 Great Tort, to have any Pretenlions to Et Callah. 



Five Leagues to the S.W. of El Callah, is the Town of Maf- Mafcar, or 



V^ I C X ο R I A 



car, or El Mafcar, another of the larger Colledions of mud- e^c. ,ί,ά. 

 walled Houfes of This Province. It is fituated in a fine Plain, 

 and in the Neighbourhood of feveral leifer Villages like El Cal- 

 lah', but the little Fort that defends It from any fudden Revolt 

 of the yirahs, is not allowed to have a Turhipj Garrifon. San- 

 Jon ' may very juftly make This Place the antient Vi6loria,x\\o\x^ 

 in placing It fixty Miles to the S. W. of Warran, He gives It 

 a very different Pofition from the true one, which is thirteen 

 Leagues to the S. S. E. 



Round about the Sources of the River Ahdt, thirty Miles toSbeebah, or 

 the S. hy E. of Mafcar, upon the Borders of the Sahara, is a ^L• ΙτΆκΙ'- 

 Knott of Dafljkras, ^s Frendah, G'lran, Tagazoiite, Άηά Sbee-^"' 

 hah, inhabited chiefly by Arahs. Sheehah hath for fome Time 

 been evacuated; but the others are built upon Places of fuch 

 difficult Accefs, that the Turks could never oblige the Inhabi- 

 tants to be Their Tributaries. There are feveral Fragments of 

 i?ow«« Walls at Sheehah, which may therefore have the greateft 

 Pretence to be the Ritia \ as Giran, from a Similitude of Sound, 

 may prove to be the Arina of the Antients. 



* 'iXi \ίΛ[ώ\ cacumetij vertex. &c. vid. Gol. in voce, i Vid. Atlai Geogr. Vol. 4. 

 p.2il. 2 Ib'td. 



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