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on each Side under an exceeding high Precipice. At every 

 W^inding, the Rock or Stratum, that originally went acrofs It 

 and thereby feparated one Valley from another, is cut into the 

 Failiion of a Door Cafe, fix or feven Foot wide, giving there- 

 by the Arabs an Occaiion to call Them the ^Beehan^ Gates • 

 whilft the Turks, in Confideration of Their Strength and Rug- 

 ged nefs, know Them by the additional Appellation of [7)ammer 

 Cappy'] The Gates of Iron. Few Perfons pafs Them without 

 Horror , a handful of Men being able to difpute the Paifage 

 with a whole Army. The Rivulet of Salt Water, which glides 

 through This Valley, might poifibly firft point out the Way, 

 which Art and Neceffity would afterwards improve. 



Two Leagues to the S. S. E. oitho. Beehan, is The [^AccahaThe Accaba, 

 ^'^'^^'\Afcent, another dangerous Pafs, and the reverfe of the"' 

 Beeban. For here the Road lyeth upon a narrow Ridge, with 

 deep Valleys and Precipices on each Side ; where the leaft De- 

 viation from the beaten Path, muft expofe the Traveller to the 

 almoft inevitable Danger of His Life. The common Road 

 from Algiers to the Eaftward, (notwithftanding thefe Diffi- 

 culties,) lyeth over This Ridge and through the Beeba?i\ being 

 preferred to another, a little on the Right Hand, as being 

 wider, and to that of JVan-nougah in being more dire6l. 



JVan-nougah or JVan-nou-hah, a Part of Mount Atlas -^xs.^'^'^'Mo-'.nt.of 

 the Seat of the IVelled Boobeide and Beleel, is a Knot of Moun- gah."""°"" 

 tains lefs rugged, and much better watered, than thofe of the 

 Bern Abbe [s. They lye to the S. W. of the Beeban, and hang 

 over the Plains of Hamza on the one Side, and over Thofe of 

 Mejana on the other. 



The Gurgoure a powerful Clan, are five Leagues to the Eail-Cargoure. 

 ward of the Beni Abbefs , and border upon the River of the 

 Welled Ajebby. Above Them are the Me felt ah and the Bent 

 Selim ; and then follow the Mountains of Neeny, and Taffaat, 

 cultivated by Welled Nebbs and Shouhe. The Rahamah, with Rahamah. 

 Their high pointed Mountain, are to the Weftward oiTaffaat ; 

 and in the like Situation we find the BeniWortelan, who have Beniwone- 

 Saltoure, a confiderable Dafikrah of the Beni Abbefs, to the ^'''' 

 Northward. Two or three Leagues to the E. S. E. of the 

 Beni Wortelan, are the Bent Talah, of the fame Family with 

 Thofe of Mount Jurjura ; and at the like Diftance to the S. E. 

 is the Town oiZammorah, built over againft the Tomb oiSeedj Zam-morah. 



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