74- Geographical Ohfervattons in the Inland Parts 



Mers'eiDa-was probably Edrifis" [Merf el [;:?^^] T>ajaje\ Tort of Hens. 



^'^^" I am told that the Name of Jinnett [^^-^^ Taradife'] was given 



to This Place upon Account of a Row-Boat having been once 

 very providentialy conduded within the Creek, when the Ma- 

 riners expected every Moment to have periflied. The Sea 

 Shore, which from Temendfufe to This Place is very little inter- 

 rupted with Rocks and Precipices, begins now to be rugged and 

 mountainous: and below fome of Thefe Eminences, three 

 Leagues farther to the E. we have the iMouth of the Booherak, 

 the Eaftern Boundary of This Province. 



The Boobc- I'he Booherak hath It's principal Sources among the Zwo- 

 wahy ten Leagues to the S. E. When It hath difengaged It- 

 felf, by a Number of deep Windings, from their mountainous 

 Diftria, and entreth the Se-howe, It changeth It's Name to 



or Niffah, MiJJah. Over againft the Burgh ^ It receiveth the Bugdoora, a 

 conliderable Stream, coUedled from the feveral Rills that de- 

 fcend from Jurjura, and the neighbouring Mountains, and then 

 continuing, for the Space of Three Leagues, to run in a wefter- 

 ly Direction, turns at once, through the Mountains of the ^- 

 delwairet, to the Northward, and carrieth the Name of Boo- 

 herak to the Sea. I croffed This River in May, three Weeks af- 

 ter any Rain had fallen in the adjacent Country, and computed 



a/ the Bignefs •' ■, λ nj ΊΤ ΓΓ 



e/iAiSheiiiiF. It to bc cqual to the Sheltiff. 



CHAP. VL 



Of the moft remarhahle Places and Inhabitants in the In- 

 land Country of the Southern Province j together isjith 

 the correfpondent Tart of the Sahara. 



Bieeda ani^ T^Leeda and Medea, the only Inland Cities of This Province, 

 ΒιΪΓ'οοί.' ΧΪ are each of Them about a Mile in Circuit ; but Their 

 ^B^^^.V Walls being made up chiefly with Mud, perforated in moft 

 'Places by the Hornet, cannot be prefumed to contribute much 

 to Their Strength and Security. Some of their Houfes are flat 

 roofed, others like Thofe of Maliana-, with which They alfo 



\ Hinc (viz. \Temeafos) ad Merfa Alda^iag, milliaria vigintij habetque hjec Portum fi- 

 dUfiaium. Gecigr. Nub. p. 82. 



agree. 



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