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El Hcrba. 



Geographical Ohjewations in the InlandTarts 



Travelling down the Mountains of the Bent Καβ'ιά, we come 

 to El Herha, formerly a Roman City, more than a Mile in 

 Circuit. It is fituated upon the Brink of the Shelliff, two Leagues 

 to the E.S.E. of the Village of the Bern Ra/Jjid,h^y'm^ a narrow 

 Strip of plain fertil Ground to the Northward. Here are fe- 

 veral fmall Marble Pillars, of a blewiih Colour and good Work- 

 manfhip, but the Capitals, which were of the Corinthian Or- 

 der, are defaced. There are beildes, feveral Tombs likeThofe 

 at Memomiturroy ; and upon One of the Covers, fcouped,at the 

 Top of It, in the following Faihion, we have This imperfeol 

 Tnfcription. 



M. - MORI L. - 



SECVNDIANI - - 



VIG. XII ANNI - 



XIII LVCIO. - - 



El Herba. 



Maniana, or 

 iMaliana, TX'i• 

 Maniana 

 or Mallia- 

 N A . Exc. 

 p.ii.D.p.ii. 

 β. 



Seven Miles to the E. of El Khadarah, at a little Diftance 

 from the Shelliff,v^Q have the Ruins of another Roman Town, 

 of the fame Name and Extent with the former. Here the Shel- 

 //^'begins to wind Itfelf through a Plain, not inferiour, in Ex. 

 tent and Fertility, to any of This Country: the Mountains 

 likewife of Atlas, which, from the Bern Zernvall to El Kha- 

 darah, hung immediately over the Shelliff, retire now two 

 Leagues to the Northward. 



t Maniana or Maliana, as It is indifferently called by the 

 Inhabitants, is fituated upon Thefe Mountains, half a Mile above 

 This Plain,and two Leagues to the E.N.E. oiElHerha. It lyeth 

 expofed to the S. and S. W. promifing a large Scene of Build- 

 ings and Antiquities at a Diftance ; but the Fatigue of climbing 

 up to It, is badly recompenfed with the Sight only of a fmall 

 Village, whofe Houfes are covered with Tiles inftead of Ter- 

 rafs, according to the ordinary Pradice of the Country. How- 



' ■ ever^ 



