58 Geographical Obfervations in the Inland Tarts 



Round about This Monument there are feveral Coffins3 

 hewn out of mafly Blocks of Marble, in This Fafhion 



Memon ^w t The Ruins of Memon and Sinaab, formerly two contiguous 

 Cities, are ftill five Miles farther upon the Banks of the Shelliff. 

 The latter, which I judged to be three Miles in Circuit, is 

 by far the moft confidcrable ; though I faw Nothing more of 

 It than large Pieces of Walls, and feveral capacious Cifterns. The 

 Souk el Hameefe (or Thurfday's Market) is kept in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of It. 

 wan-naHi- IVafi-napj-reefe, the Gueneferis of Sanfon, and the Ganfer 

 LAC vs. p. oiT>u Val, lyeth eight Leagues to the S. hy E. of Sinaah. It 

 D.' ""''^''^" is one of the moft noted Land Marks of This Country, diftin- 

 guiftiing Itfelf all the Way, from El Callah to Medea, over a 

 Number of leiTer Mountains, ranged far and near about It : but 

 Edrift' muft have been mifinformed concerning the Length of It. 

 lf^an-nafl}-reefe,iYoir\ being in the fame Meridian with Dahmufsy 

 siniab, fro- at the Diftance nearly of fixty Miles, may, in all Probability, be 

 rliDONEVM. the Mons Zalaai-s oi Ttolemy^ as Sinaah , from Ifs Poiition 

 vi. p.u . . £-g,^,^j^ Leagues to the Northward of It,ihould be His Oppidoneum. 

 Tiflum-ree- Thirty Miles to the S. S. E. oiWan-nafi-reefe, upon the Bor- 

 siTTA.Exf. ders of the Sahara, is the Burgh Tejfum-feely, a large Heap 

 fucke-reah, of Ruins. In the fame Condition and Direolion, twenty Miles 

 'L•. farther, are the Remains of Tucke-reah, once a large City of the 



Gietidians. Binfitta and Tigan^a are placed by Ttolemy in This 

 Situation. 

 Midroe. The T)afljkrah of Midroe, with an adjacent Rivulet, is fix 



Leagues to the Southward of Tucke-reah ; and in the fame Di- 

 ftance and Situation from Midroe, are the Northern Limits 

 The Lowaat of thc Loivaat and Ammer, both of Them powerful Tribes 



a7id Ammer. r r^ τ i i • -i 



ot Uietultans. The high and rugged Mountains of the Latter, 

 The Mouv- where the River Adge-dee hath It's Fountains, begin to diftin- 

 Ammcr, r/>.guifli thcmfelvcs in This Situation. Thefe, fucceeding imme- 

 svs. Exc, p. diately the Malethuhahis, may be taken for a Part of the Mons 



Thrurcejus of Ttolemy. 



Tmuiga. In returning to the correfpondent Part of the Shelliff, and 



leaving the River Fuddah one League to the Weft ward, we pafs 



by the high Mountain oiTmulga. Upon the Banks of the .S/je"/- 



/i/f below It, are the Ruins of a little Town of the fame Name. 



Ro'o^cni ^^^^ Miles farther is the Brook Roo-ena, with the Ruins of 



/c-de€-my. Zc-dee-my, another fmall Town, upon the Eaftern Banks of It. 



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