1 ^ 2 Geographical Obfer nations in the Inland Country 



There is a large fubterraneous Quarry in the adjacent Moun- 

 tains; the fame Place perhaps that Leo' was informed had 

 been formerly inhabited by Giants. 

 t;h' River The Me-lagge paifeth by Tip fa, and joyning afterwards the 

 Me-iaggc. j^^jj^^^^ ^^g ^^ Mjislu-anah is called below Uk-kufs) commu- 

 nicateth It's own Name to This River; which, by drinking up 

 the ^in el Haloofe, Shehrou, and other plentiful Fountains in 

 This Neighbourhood, becomes equal to the Boo-mar-zooke or 

 Rummel. 

 Keefah. Keejah is at a little Diftance from Tipfa to the Eaftward : 



and then, four Leagues farther to the Southward, is Bi-cari-ah^ 

 built upon the Ruins of an antient City. In the fame Condi- 

 tion , and at the like Diftance towards the S. W. is Lerneh ; 

 after which, we have the Continuation of that Part of Mount 

 tains of λχίζί.^Ι las, which hangeth over the Sahara. 



The subaia. That Part of the Sahara, which correfponds to This Province, 

 hath, beiides the diftant City of Wurglah, and the Village 

 En-gotifah, the two confiderable Diftriols οϊ Zaah and Wadreag, 

 Each of Them containeth a Number of Villages ; though, as 

 It hath been already obferved, they are not all under the Jurif- 

 didion of the Algerines. For Wadreag and the City of Wurg- 

 lah, pay only an annual Tribute of forty black Slaves ; whilft 

 the weftern Communities of Zaal•, viz. Ί)οη/αη, Welled Jillel, 

 ζηά Seedj Khallett \ and the eaftern, viz. Ljftena, Zeryhe, and 

 Babafs, give not the leaft Tokens of Homage or Submiflion. 

 All Thefe Villages are built, in the fame Manner, with Mud 

 Walls and Rafters of Palm Trees ; whilft the Inhabitants are 

 all of Them alike occupied in cultivating the Date Tree. 

 Few of Them therefore require a particular Defcription. 

 TheDiflriaof Thc Diftri6l oi Zaah, the Zehe of the Antients, a Part for- 

 Ze'be'. Exc.mQUy 0Ϊ tho. Mauritania Sitifenftszna oiGteitdia, is a narrow 

 p^8. p. 3;. -pj.^^ of Land, lying immediately under the Mountains of 

 y4ilas. It reacheth from the Meridian of Mef-feelah to that 

 of €ο?ιβαηϊιηα , and confifts of a double Row of Villages , 

 Doufan. whereof Doufan is the fartheft to the Weftward. The Rivers 

 Ganne and Jer-roufe run a little to the Eaftward of this Village, 

 and empty Themfelves afterwards into the Wed Adje-de: upon 

 the Banks of which River, three Leagues to the Southward, 



I Eft huicoppido (Tibejfa) mons quidam vicinus, antris profiindiilimis refertus, in quibus 

 gigantcs aliquando inhabitalic putanrur. "J. Leo. p. 212. 



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