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Additions It changeth It's Name, from the Colour of the Water 

 into that of The [Wed [u^<^-?n y^beadh'] White River ; and leave- 

 ing the Ti^jaahah, a few Leagues to the W. falls to the Eaft- Twaabah. 

 ward of the Bera-neefe, into the Province o^Zaah. This River, 

 as the general Courfe of It lyeth in the fame Meridian with Con- 

 βαηίιηα, might have been made a proper Boundary betwixt 

 the Mauritania Sitifenfts and Nu7nidia. 

 We are now to defcribe the Inland Parts and Inhabitants of ^, ^ 



. LbeLoiintrj of 



the Eaftern Divinon of This Province, formerly polieiTed by'^'' cirte- 

 t\\QCirte/ij, who, I conjefture, might have been bounded by^+^.p.!?". 

 the Meridians of the Great River and Sgigata\ by the Naha- 

 thr^e, who fucceeded Them, as far perhaps as the Meridian of thrX exc. 

 Tuchifj: And by the Io7itij, who were the Mailers of the fol-wi%^,. 

 lowing Part of Numidia, as far as Ta-harka. '''''^• 



Above the Bent Be-leet therefore are the Beni Wel-hanne, a g^,^; ^^^^ 

 confiderable Clan, who live near the half Way betwixt Con- ^^"'^^• 

 jiantina and Skigata. The rugged Mountain of Sgowe be-j^bbeisgowe: 

 longs to Thefe Kahyles^ and upon the Declivity of It to the 

 Weftward , are the Ruins of an old City , called at prefent 

 Ma- far ah. The Grarah and the Hamzah, the next Inhabi-Ma-famh. 

 tants to the Eaftward, are pofleiTed of what feems to have been 

 the N. E. Frontiers of the antient Cirtefij : being fucceeded, 

 in a lefs mountainous Country, by the Hareifjah andF^'^;- 

 arah. Betwixt the large Pond of the Latter and Bona , is Fcz-'^i'ah.'' 

 the Gun-nara, a Heap of Ruins, the moil remarkable of which ^ 

 are thole 01 an old Caftle. 



The Welled Boo-zeefe have Their Douwars, nearer the 5'i'i- wciiedBoo- 

 houfe, to the Southward of the Hareifiah. Their Diilria is^'^*"^• 

 more woody and mountainous than the former ; unlefs when 

 They encamp in the Boo-hammam, near the Banks of the Sei- 

 houfe. ^βJ•coure, a fmall Heap of Ruins, is fituated upon the ΑΠι -coure, 

 Q^^em Skins oi the Boo-hammam, ne^r the ^in Afy/fah : and 

 a little below Them there are other Ruins, and a Number of 

 lukewarm Springs, bubbling up within a large fquare Bafon of 

 Roman Workmanihip. Thefe, which are called from Their, 

 Warmth and Quality Hammam or Hammah, feem to be the ^-/^^ α-^Ί ' 

 AqiiceCalidce, or Tihilitan^', as the Ruins Themfelves may be ?i bi Li;.'' 

 the Tihilis of the Antients ; lying about ten Leagues to the τ^βι!"!'^' 

 S. W. oi Hippo Regius, andfixteen to the E. of G>/^; in fuch ρΓ^ΐ^^Ι 

 a Pofition nearly, as It is placed in by the Author of the Itinerary, t "^"^" ''"'• 



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