8ό Geographical Objervations in the Inland Tarts 



r/;iKubbah Leagues from Them to the N. E. is the Γ»-ί *~| Kuhbah ' oi Seedy 



of Seedy ^ \- ^ y 



Habfhee. Hab^ee, built upon a riling Ground, near the Banks of the IVed 



el Mmlah. The Beni Solyman and the Welled Taan belong to 



This Neighbourhood ; to the Southward of which are the Arabs 



^^\m7he y^^-^^b, with a large Heap of Ruins. Ttokmy?> \J[fara, from 



jou-ebb, ^\^Q Situation of It in the Neishbourhood oiy^uzia, mav be very 



rke UssA- ο ^ . . 



RA. Exf. p. -well fixed at This Place : as His Turaphilum, for the fame Rea- 



fon, will fall in with the Ruins at Shil-ellah. 

 neRrjer Thrce Leasues to the Eaftward of the Kubbah, is the River 



Zagwan. Ο 3 '• '■ 



Caiiooia. Zagwau, well known to a Branch of the ΟαβοοΙα. It hath It's 



^οΙΙ""^ ^^' Fouiitains among the IVelled Haloofe, who inhabit properly 

 the mountainous Diftridl to the Southward, but fometimes 

 wander as far as J'tbbel Oeera. Before the Zagwan joyns the 

 Zeitoune^ It receiveth the Wed el Mailah. 



H-lmlf" "^ Leaving the Caftoola, we enter upon the rich and extenfive 

 Plains of Hamza, which, reaching as far as the Mountains of 



r«e Arabs ofWannougah, are cultivated by Welled Dreefe, Miriam, Fair ah, 

 Dreed, Maintenan, and other Bedoweens. Seedy Hamza, a 

 Marab-butt of great Reputation, gave His Name to Thefe 

 Plains ; whofe Tomb is vifited upon the weftermoft Borders of 

 Them, not far from the high pointed {Hadjar) Rock of the 

 Magrowa. 



Wed Ad- The Wed Ad-oufe, gliding along the eaftern Diviiion of Thefe 

 Plains, receiveth feveral Rivulets : of which the two principal 



jibbei Dec- oucs are from Jibbel T>eera. Thefe unite at about a Miles Di- 



ra. '^ 



The phaa- ftauce from their Sources and form the Thaamah, the Thoe- 

 Phoebus, mliis pcrhaps of Ttokmy, and upon the Neck of Land that ly- 

 BurgbH^m- ^th betwccn Them, we have the Burgh Hamza with a Turkiflj 

 &Α^Έ«.'ρ.^^ΐΊ'ΐίοίΐ of one Suffrah\ The Burgh is made out of the Ruins 

 β^• ^• ^- -'^* of the antient Auzia, called by the Arabs [uV ^?- Sour GuJIan\ 

 iian""' ^'"■^/-'i' Walls of the Antilopes, a great Part whereof, fortified at 



proper Diftances with little fquare Turrets, is ftill remaining. 



The whole feems to have been little more than fix Furlongs in 



I S.A>, Fornix, concameratum opus & tale Saccllum. Gol. in Voce, from tuhence perhaps 

 the Cupola of the later yirchiteils. The Marab-butts are generally buried under one of thefe Build- 

 ings, which have frequently an Oratory annexed to Them ; and fometimes a dtveUing Houfe, en- 

 dowed %vtth certain Rents for the Maintenance of a Number o/Thul-by [L^iL] τνΐιο are to fpend 

 Their Time in reading and Devotion. I have often obferved, tfhere there is an Inftitution of tins 

 Kind, that then the Place, including the Kubbah, the Oratory &c. is called the Zwowah offuch 

 or fuch a Marab-butt. 2 |0* The Common Name, among the Algcrincs, for a Band or Company of 

 Turkifh Soldiers, confifling for the mofi Fart of twenty Perfons, including a Cook, Steward, and 

 Lieutenant : fo called, I prefume, from being fuch a Number or 3^? f0, as for the Conveniency of 

 Eating, can jit about ene ['iyk^ Suffrali] Table. 



Circuit, 



