Of the Weflern Province. yp 



t El Khada-rah, the Chadra οϊ Ednft\ is the next remark- E'^Khada- 

 able Place in This Situation, lying thirteen Miles only in a di- 

 reol Line from the River Fuddah, though as much more in the 

 Courfe of travelling. It is fituated, like Mejiddah, upon a rifing 

 Ground, on the Brink of the SheUiff\ and is equal to Sinaah in 

 Extent of Ruins. A Range of Mountains, rifing immediately 

 from the oppofite Banks of the ShelUff, Ihelter It from the N. 

 Wind; wyxA^JllhelDwee^ another high Mountain, at a Miles 

 Diftance, fronting It from the S.E. fupplyeth the beautiful little 

 Plains between Them, with a plentiful Rill of Water. The per- 

 petual Verdure of Thefe Plains, may, in all Probability have 

 communicated Their own Name of [ c.v^'^^^'^ El Chuhd-ary\ The or th Green, 

 Green to thefe Ruins, though the Rank and Figure It muft have 

 formerly held among the African Cities, could well entitle It 

 to another Etymology, from Chadra [ myn ] The Town, as It 

 might have been called by Way of Eminence. The Epitomizer 

 of Edr'ifi feems to have underftood His Chadra in the former 

 Senfe : but if we could receive the latter Interpretation, It 

 would probably be a ftronger Argument for fixing the Oppido- 

 neum here, than at Sinaah, according to the Tenor of Ttolem/s 

 Tables. The Itinerary certainly, in laying down only a Diftance 

 of eighteen Miles betwixt His Oppidum No'vum and Malltana, {^^- ρ^ί. 

 very obviouily fixeth It at This Place. But if Ttolemfs Au- 

 thority is to direfbus, then His Z^/cc^^^^^ri (the Succahar and J'^^^Jj^-^ 

 the Colonia Augufta as we may fuppofe oiTliny) placed in the£^;^p^:i'i^• 

 fame Lat. and yo' to the E. of Oppidoneum, will better agree 

 with This Situation. Jilhel Dwee likewife, upon the fame 

 Suppofition, may be taken for the Mons Tranfcellenfis, which, 

 according to Ammianii^s^, hung over It. 



A few Paces to the E. of Thefe Ruins, are the Remains of ^-^^f "^^ 



. Bridge. 



a large Stone Bridge, the only one perhaps that was ever built 

 over the Shelliff, notwithftanding the great Inconveniences Tra- 

 vellers are fometimes put to, efpecially in the Winter Seafon, 

 of waiting a whole Month before They can ford It. 



The Inhabitants of This Part of the Country, to the Eaft ward JfJ^^^;;;- 

 of the Sweede, and on This Side the Shelliff, are firft the Beni 



I Egredicris ex urbe Tenes, procedefque fpatio juftas ftationis ad filios Vazelefn, montes 

 horridos, rupelque frequentes. A filiis Vaz.elefn ad Chadra [i.e. vntdent] habes item ftationem. 

 Et a Cbdar.i ad urbetn Aiil'iana ftationem : & tertia ab hac die, ex parte meridionali, extat 

 mons Van.tfcris diclus qui longitudine explet iter quatridui, attingit enim extremitatibus 

 fuis loca propinqua T'ii/wrf. Geog. Nub. p.ii. ζ ConverCas hinc { Jc. ^ Ci&farea ) venit ad 

 municipium SugAbarutanumTrmfcelUnft monti adcline. Amnmn. Marcellinus I.29. c.j. 



Ρ % Timnah, 



