Of the Eaflern Trovince. 9 ; 



ceiveth other plentiful Supplies from the Boojer-aat , the 

 Am el Fouah, and the Fountains of Re-jafs ; and leaving the 

 City Meelah a few Miles to the Weft ward^ joins the two Bran- 

 ches that were firft taken Notice of. The Suf-j'im-mar, Ru?n- 

 mel or the River of Conflant'ina^ as It is differently called by 

 the ArahSy may be very well taken for the antient Ampfaga,Ti^^ ampsa- 

 which paifed under the Walls of Ciria^^ and emptied Itfelfaf-io.c.p. li- 

 ter wards into the Sea, betwixt -^i/^i/i and Qillu. The mo-Cap"io.' 

 dern Geographers have generally conduced the Channel of 

 Their ^;w/)/rt'^^ towards the Gulph of Cull•, but Ours hath no 

 fuch Diredion, falling into the Sea fix Leagues to the Weft- 

 ward. There is a great Affinity between the prefent Name of 

 This River, and the Interpretation which Bochart hath left us 

 of the Ampfaga * "^. 



A little to the Eaftward of the JVedelKiheer, is The \_Mers mcis' ci 

 el Ze'itoune'] Tort of Olives \ in which Situation we are likewife 

 to look for the Tacc'ianas Mattid'ne of the Itinerary, and the 

 Afifarat of Ttolemy : but the Bern Mefelim are the prefent Bem Mcfe- 

 Inhabitants. 



Immediately after the Mers" el Zeitoune, we pafs by The ^^^^^ 

 \_Sehha Rons] feven Capes, called likewife Bonjarone in fomc mo-o'Boujarone'. 

 dern Sea Charts. They are all very high, rugged and barren 

 Promontories, extending Themfelves, with their narrow Bays 

 and dangerous Inlets, as far as Cull. 



The Influx of the River Zhoore is among the Eaftermoft of r/,, zhoore. 

 thefe Capes, where the Sinus Numidicus may be fuppofed to 

 begin. It hath If s Sources among the Mountains of the Beni 

 Welhaan, a few Leagues to the N. of Conβantina ; but, the 

 Channel lying all the way through a mountainous Trad, It is 

 thereby fo continually augmented with frefh Supplies, as to 

 become a confiderable River , when It emptieth Itfelf into 

 the Sea. Ύ\\^ Welled Atty ah , ^nd the Beni Friganah, theweikdAr- 

 two principal Clans of the SehhaRous, drink of this River,UemFnga- 

 and dwell not, like the other Kahyles , in little thatched"'''' 

 Hovels, under the Shelter of fome Forreft or Mountain, but 

 in the Caves of the Rocks, which They have either dug Them- 

 felves, or found ready made to their Hands. Upon the Ap- 



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