66 Geographical Obfevvations upon the Sea Coafl 



from Them the City is fupplyed with Provifions. Flax and Al 

 Henna, Roots and Pot-herbs^ Rice, Fruit and Grain of all Kinds, 

 are produced here to Perfedion. Yet I am to obferve, that 

 only the Hadjonte, ( as They call the Weftermoft Part of It ) 

 belongs properly to this Province ; the reft, lying bounded by 

 the Rivers Ma-faffran and Budwowe, being claimed by the 

 Southern Province, which I am now to defcribe. 



CHAP. V. 



Geographical Obfervations upon the Sea Coaft of that Ψ art 

 of the Mauritania Ccefarienfis, which is called at pre- 

 fent the Southern Province, or the Province (jfTitterie. 



Tke Genera/ r-r^ Η I 5 Provittcc, wliich lyeth bounded to the Eaftward bv 

 ThisProvinte. J^ the River Booherakj is much inferiour to the Weftern in 

 Extent ; being fcarce fixty Miles either in Length or Breadth. 

 Neither is the Jurifdidlion of the Viceroy, as extenfive as His 

 Province. For the Superintendency of the Mettijiah, and of 

 the fertil Country near the Banks of the Ti^(?r, belong to par- 

 ticular Kaides, who are under the immediate Appointment and 

 Direction of the Dey οι Algiers. Neither is This Province, in 

 general, ib mountainous as the Weftern. For the Sea Coaft, 

 to the Breadth of five or fix Leagues, the Seat formerly of the 

 The Sea Coafl anticttt Machurchi, is made up chieflv of rich champain Ground : 



formerly Pof- '' ^ 



fejj-ed by the behind which indeed we have a Range of rugged Mountains, 

 Bi.E^.p.ii. that run, almoft in a direct Line, through a great Part of This 

 Province : but beyond Them, in the Neighbourhood of Me- 

 dea, the Titterie Ί)οβ, the IVed Afiyre, and particularly at 

 Anathemid- fJamza, the antient Territories, I prefume, of the Tulenfii and 



land Coimtry ^ 1 rVni 



by the Tu- Banmri,viQ have other extenfive Plains; though none or Them 

 ni?r"' are equal to Thofe of the Mettijiah. To the Southward again 

 of Thefe Plains, from Sour Gtifan to the Titterie Ί)οβ, the Coun- 

 try begins to be mountainous; but from the Titterie Τ)οβ^, to- 

 wards the Burgh and the Frontiers of the Weftern Province, 

 machu- there appeareth to be a more eafy and commodious Accefs in- 

 i'^^'i^' to the Sahara. And in This Situation were the Habitations per- 

 7i^t^.'u. haps of the Machures ; as fome of the Salamffn and Malchuhii 



might 



