Of the Eaftern Trovince. 107 



occafion a Variety of Agues and fuch like Diitempers, as are 

 common to other Places in the like Situation. We have feve- 

 ral Heaps of Ruins difperfed over thefe Plains ; out of whofe 

 Materials, the Turks ha\^e lately built a [^BurgJj] Fort, where 

 They have a Garrifon to watch the Motions of the Bern yuh-hej's 

 and Their Tributary Kabyks and Arabs. 



The Country of the Sud-ratah borders upon the Plains of S"d-ratah. 

 Mn]nnah to the Eaft, and hath to the Northward the Moun- 

 tains of Zam-morah. It is not quite fo level and fertil as the 

 Plains to the Weftward, being chiefly remarkable for the 

 Sanduarv of Seedy Embarak Ef-mati, a Marab-biitt of the firft s^^Emba- 



/ ^. Λ-1 ^ rak Ll-mati. 



Reputation. This Place, which we may have fometimes Oc- 

 cafion to fpeak of, lyeth three Leagues to the E. S. E. of the 

 Burgb Majanah , and feven to the W. of Seieef. The Sa- luLciu- ^' 

 lampfij and Malchubij, taken Notice of in the Southern Pro- "^B^'^'i/' 

 vince, may not only have reached thus far to the Eailward, but ^' ^^' 

 have fpread Themfelves likewife as far as Mefeelah and the 

 Plains oiElHuthnah to the South. 



ΎhQAmmer, fucceed the Sud-ratah, fpreading Themfelves Ammer. 

 along the Banks of the Rubber At-teah and Boofellam, a great 

 Way beyond Seteef. They are a powerful, though infamous 

 Tribe, proftituting in a very open Manner Their AVives and 

 Daughters. 



We have feveral Ruins in this Diftria, but none worth taking setecf , The 

 Notice of, except thofe of Seteef, the Sitipha or *S//^of thecTS^. 

 Antients, and the Metropolis of this Part ο^ϊ Mauritania. This tVfP' ^ΐ 

 City, which I conjedure may be a League in Circuit, hath^Vg•^;^/• 

 been built upon a rifmg Ground, that faceth the South; butP•^^'•^^• 

 the Arabs have been fo very fevere to It, that there is fcarce 

 one Fragment left us of either Wall, Pillar, or Ciftern of the 

 Romans: the few remaining Strudures, being obvioufly the 

 Work of the later Inhabitants. The Fountains in the Middle 

 of the City are equally delightful and convenient; and without 

 Doubt, gave formerly occafion to feveral ingenious and ufeful 

 Contrivances in the Diftribution of the Water. I found here the 

 two following Infcriptions ; whereof the Latter is infcribed in 

 Half-Foot Letters ; and, provided It had been perfeft, might 

 have been of fome Confequence. 



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