Of the Eaflern Province. 1 1 ^ 



Mef-feeldh, the frontier Town of This Province to the Weft- Mcf-feehh. 

 wardj is built upon the Southern Skirts of £/ Huthnah , nine 

 Leagues to the S. S. W. of Seedy Emharak Ef-mati, and fome- 

 thing Icfs to the Weftward of Jowam el Mugrah ; fo that 

 ^hulfeda ' muft be miftaken in placing It only eighteen Miles 

 from Conflantina. It is a dirty Place, like moft of the Villages 

 of This Country, having It's Houfes built, either with Reeds 

 daubed over with Mud, or elfe with Tiles baked only in the 

 Sun. The Alger'ines had formerly at This Place a Garrifon of 

 three Snffrahs, changed at prefent into a fmall Body of Spahees, 

 who have little Duty upon Their Hands , and upon any In- 

 furredlion or Difturbance, (there being no Caftle to prote6t 

 Them) have nothing but Their Arms to truft to. The Air is 

 too cold at This, as w'ell as at other Places upon the Skirts of 

 the Sahara, for the Produ6lion of Dates ; and therefore the 

 Gardens that furround It, are only furniflied with Peach, Apri- 

 cot, and fuch fruit Trees, as are common to the more northern 

 Parts οι Barharjf. MeJ-feelah ' denotes fuch a Situation as This, 

 which borders upon a running Water. 



Eight Leagues to the E. S. E. oi Mef-feelahy and a little to Ue puim of 

 the S. W. οϊ Jowam el Mugrah, is The ^Αϊη el c>i= Kelh'\ Foun- ^^'""^'"^• 

 tain of the Dog. From whence we crofs the Nak-kar, (as They 

 call the Kivqy Souhillah near the Shott) and afterwards, at five 

 Leagues Diftance ftill farther to the Eaftward, the Bareekah, 

 and then enter into the Plains of that Name, which are culti- 

 vated, in the fame Method with El Huthnah, by the Welled 

 Seedy Mahamet Ben Hadge. The Eaftern Parts of £'/ Huthnah 

 bound This Diftrid: to the Northward ; and to the S. W. we 

 have the Les-haah, an Interchange of feveral little barren. . 



. *-* Les-baah. 



Mountains and Valleys that border upon the Shott. 



Jihbel Suffian, a rugged Mountain inhabited by the Welled γ,^^^^ι s^f. 

 Toujef, is fituated at three Leagues Diftance to the N. E. of ^^^jj^j 

 the Bareekah, and to the S. S. W. of the Ras el y4ioune. The Y""^^^• 

 little Rivulet of Boo-ma-zoofe, defcends from This Mountain, "^k' Booma- 

 and leaving the Bareekah three Leagues to the Weftward, 

 lofeth Itfelf afterwards in The \Midar jo -Λ Miry Tlains ^/Midar Ben- 

 Ben loujef, to the Eaftward of the Shott. 



I yilKaiem Billab Fathemita condidit Mefeela An. Heg. 315•. appellavitque earn Jl mo- 

 hanmed'iab. Inter Cofiinam & Mefeelam oaodecim Milliaria & mons continuus. Abulf. 

 ut fupra. 2 eAuA^ (viz. J\.^ fluxit aqua) locus torrenits feu fluentis acjuae. Vid. Goi Gig. &c. 

 in voce. 



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