The Garrifon 



The Market. 



The Trade, 



po Geographical Ohfewations upon the Sea-Coafl 



the Bottom of the Mountain, for the Security of the Port. 

 Upon the Walls of One of Them, feveral Marks are ftill remain- 

 ing of the Cannon-Ball , left there by Sir Edward Spragg in 

 His memorable Expedition againft This Place '. 



Boujeiah is one of the garrifoned Towns of This Kingdom, 

 where three Suffrahs conftantly refide ; but who are of fo little 

 Confequence, that the Goryah^ the Toujah and other neigh- 

 bouring Kahyles ^ lay It under a perpetual Blockade. Every 

 Market Day efpecially, there are ftrange Diforders raifed by 

 thefe fadious Clans. As long indeed as the Market continueth^ 

 every Thing is tranfaoted with the utmoft Tranquillity; but 

 afterwards, the whole Place is immediately in an Uproar, and 

 the Day rarely concludes, without fome flagrant Inilance of 

 Rapine and Barbarity. 



The Inhabitants carry on a confiderable Trade inPlowihares, 

 Mattocks, and fuch Utenfils as They forge out of the Iron, 

 dug out of the adjacent Mountains. Great Quantities likewife of 

 Oyl and Wax, brought down every Market Day by the KabyleSy 

 are fliipped off for the Levant and Europe. 

 Boujeiah,T/;i Boujeiah, lying at the Diftance of XCI Roman Miles, or 

 Ix'^.p^^o^b! i°• 45"'. from Vellys or Rufucurium, may be taken for the An- 

 D^'Sis.tieiit Saldce. It hath been already obferved, that Sald^e, is 

 ρ i?. c. placed by Ttolemy at too great a Diilance to the Southward ; 

 and ^idfeda, though nearer the Truth, yet in giving to His 

 [w.u•?] Boujeiah 54.°. only of N. Lat. throws It x°. 4,8'. farther to 

 the S. than I find It to be by Obfervation. Boujeiah being the 

 only City of This Part of Barbary , that is taken Notice of 

 by ^bulfeda, will give us Room to fufpeft, that Algiers was 

 either not built, or of little Confideration in His Time. 

 Ike River of The adjacent River, the Nafava of Ttolemy, emptieth Itfelf 

 Ni'irvi!^''into the Sea a little to the Eaftward. It is made by a Num- 

 Evf. p.io. B. ^^^ of Rivulets, which fall into It from different Direolions; 

 though none of Them arife in the Neighbourhood oi Mefeelahy 

 77!fPhaamah. as fome latc Geographers * inform us. The Thaamah, called 

 afterwards, in pafling through the Plains οϊ Hamza, the IVed 

 Ad-oufe, is the Wellermoft of Thefe Branches, having It's 

 Sources at Jibbel Deera, feventy Miles to the W. S. W. In 

 gliding below Mount Jmjura, It is called Zowah, where It is 



I Atl. Geogr. Vol. iv. p. 191. 2 Vid. Atl. Geogr, ut fupra. 



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