Of the Eaflern Province. 115• 



rable Streams^ which emptyThemfelves into This Place from the 

 Northward. 



CroiTing the Boo-ma-zoofe, over againft Tuhnah, we have a Muckat d 

 large Mountain of excellent Free-Stone, with a Number of^'"'*^^'^' 

 fquare Blocks, ready prepared for the Builder, lying by It. 

 It is called 7^6" \^Miickat' [^*^'*] el Hadjar]§luarr)>\ UiQ^rahs 

 having a Tradition that the Stones employed in the building of 

 Seieef (and without Doubt of Nic-kowfe, Jighah, and other 

 neighbouring Cities) were brought from This Place. 



Four Leagues to the Northward of the i^i/irry , is Boo- Boo-muggar. 

 muggar'', a fruitful little Diftrift, with fome Traces of antient 

 Buildings. Betwixt It and Ras el Aioune ^ is the Village of 

 Nic-kowfe or Ben- cow fe as the TurL• call It, where there is aNic-kowfe. 

 Garrifon of one Siiffrah , a. mud-walled Rampart and three 

 Pieces of Cannon• The Inhabitants are chiefly Zwowiah^ un- 

 der the Protection of Seedy LaJJan^ Their tutelar Saint : out SeedyLafPan. 

 of the Revenues of whofe Sanftuary there are maintained two 

 hundred Thalehs. Nic-kowfe is iituated in a Plain with a 

 Circle of Mountains at a moderate Diftance from It. A Rivulet 

 glides by It to the W. but being impregnated with too many 

 of the nitrous Particles, which the Soil It paiTeth over is 

 charged with, the Water is feldom made ufe of in the Offices 

 of the Table or Kitchin. We have the Traces here of a large 

 City, with the Remains, as ufual, of Pillars, broken Walls and 

 Cifterns. But at prefent the Nic-kowftans make Themfelves 

 famous for the Tombs, They pretend to have, of the Seven 

 Sleepers \ Whom They ilrenuouily maintain to have been 

 Miijfelmeen, and to have flept at This Place. 



Half Way betwixt the RaselAmme and the Mountains ofAinAzeii. 

 Welled ^ly Ben Sa-houre , we have other Ruins and feveral 

 Troughs and Cifterns of Stone ; all of Them the Work of the An- 

 tients, and into which the plentiful Fountain oiAzell is con- 

 duced. Three Leagues to the S. S. E. of the Ras el -^ioune^^^^^^^^ 

 are the Mountains of the Welled Sultan, who are fucceeded, in^'Jj^^;, 

 a like mountainous Tra6t, by the Welled Fathmah : and then by 



1 Viz. a ^Li's lecuit. 2 /i Word like this, viz IHJO^ Bcmuggarou we meet with in the 

 H. Scriptures; rendred In His or Their Dwellings. Job. 18. 19. Pf. yy. 16. Magalia eilam 

 difta qazCi Magaria, quod Mag ar ["IJO] Puaice Novam Villain dicunt. Ifid.Ong.l. if. 

 Cap. 12. 3 The common Opinion is that They Slept in a Cavern of Mount Ochlon, near the Ctty 

 Ephefus, from A.D. CCLUI. to A. D. CCCCVIII, viz. /row the Decian Perfecution to the 

 Time of the younger Theodofms. vid. Gregoire de Tours de gloria Martjrum. C. 95. Diilion. 

 de Moreri in I'oc. Dormans. 



Ffx the 



Fathmah. 



