Of the Weftern Province. β ι 



Teffsert\ after which are the Gurhks, (as They call the Mud- 

 walled Hovels) of the Bent Tifra, and Beni Menaffer, the In- Bcni Yifra, 

 habitants of the mountainous Country betwixt Maliana and £"' ^'''"''' 

 Sherpjell. The Boohalwan are met with ftill farther to the Boohaiwan, 

 E. near Hammam Mereega, and the Banks of the Wedjer: who^^/2>E.' 

 likewife cultivate the rich hilly Country adjoyning to the Wefter- 

 moft Part of the Mettij'iah. Thefe, in Conjunftion with t\\ζ,rhcM^cnv- 

 Magro7i/ah, and Their neighbouring Tribes, may probably in-ii^A.^vid.^" 

 herit the Country of the antient Machusii. ^'^" 



Merjejah, a mud-walled Village, is one of the Communities Me^jejah. 

 under the Turkifi Yoke. It hath a high Situation, three Miles 

 over againft, and in View of Sinaah, but is only remarkable 

 for being under the Influence and Protection of a Family oiMa- 

 rabbutts, the greateft of This Country, who have fucceeded 

 one another from Father to Son, through a Number of Ages 

 and Defcents. 



Bern Κηβήά, the Beni- Ar ax of the modern Geographers, isBeniRanud. 

 in the fame rugged Situation and miferable Condition with Mer- 

 jejah. It lyeth eight Miles to the E. by S. οϊ Merjejah, and two 

 Miles N. of the River Fuddah, a Pofition quite different from 

 what Sanfon and T)u Val^Q It, to the S. or S. W. of Mafa- 

 gran. This Place ' made fome Figure in former Ages, having 

 had a Citadel, two thoufand Houfes, and a Race of warlike In- 

 habitants, who commanded as far as El Callah and Mafcar. 

 But at prefent, the Caftle is in Ruins, the two thoufand Houfes 

 and the large Territories are reduced to a few Cottages ; and 

 the People, from a like Courfe of Obedience, with their Neigh- 

 bours, to a jealous and fevere Government, are become equally 

 timorous and cowardly. However their Figs and Fruit, for 

 which they were always famous, continue in the fame Repute, 

 difputing Size and Delicacy of Tafte withThofe of the BeniZer- 

 wall. Marmol maketh This Place the J^illeburgii?n, or T^tlla 

 f^ic7is,iLnd San/on, the Bunobora QiTtolemy\ but the firft lying 

 to the W. of the Tortus Magnus, and the latter to the W. of 

 CartemKE, neither of Them, I prefume can pretend to fuch a 

 Situation. 



^ I -^i/.Gfi^r.Vol.IV.p.2io. Extcndit fefe Regio Beni Κφ'ύ orientem verfus in Jongum fo, 

 in latum vcro 2y fere miilia pafluum. Reperias in montibus illis aliquot pagos, atque in- 

 ter hos duo funt prxcipui^quorum shevCbalhatHaoara eft appellatus,in montis cujufdam cofta 

 ad arcis modum fabricatus; mercacorum atque artificum domos circitcr quadraginta numc- 

 rat: alter vero £/rao Hafcar nuncupatur. ^.Leo. p.196,7. 



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