2o8 Geographical Obfervations in the Inland Country 



Ferre-anah. It is recorded likcwife that Jugurtha \ after He 

 was defeated by Metellus, fled to the Defert, and from thence 

 direoled His Fhght (all the Way as it may be prefumed to 

 the Eaftvvard) to Thala. For had Thala been placed in the 

 weftern Part of the Deferts of Numidta, Jugurtha\ as it is 

 related in another Place, would not have had that exceeding 

 long Journey, through a SucceiTion of Deferts, to the Gcetidi \ 

 inafmuch as Their Country lay immediately behind the Mau- 

 ritamie- Sallufl acquainteth us further that the neareil River 

 to Thala was at fifty Miles Diftance \ and that Metellus, in 

 His Purfuit of Jugurtha , took in there a Provifion of Water 

 for His Journey over the interjacent Defert. Now whether 

 (according to the Situation of the late Field of Battle at C'lrta 

 or Vacca,) Metellus directed His March to Thala by Tipaja 

 or Sufetula, (for an Army cannot pafs conveniently through 

 Caffareen, by Reafon of feveral impenetrable Mountains and 

 narrow 'Defilees) we have either the JVed el Hataah, or elfe the 

 River of Spaitla, which very well agreeth with this Geogra- 

 phical Circumftance. Whereas had Thala been fituated in the 

 Sahara, (to the Weftward oi Numidia,) there would have been 

 no NeceiTity for making this Provifion of Water, inafmuch as, 

 in none of thofe Parts of G^tulia, there is any Intermiflion of 

 Fountains or Rivulets, for half that Diftance. Neither indeed 

 could Thala be fuppofed to have been a City of the Bent Mezzah, 

 or of the Country of Wadreag, inafmuch as the neareft River 

 to any of thofe Places, is at much more than fifty Miles Di- 

 ftance; befides the Want there will ft ill be of other Geogra- 

 phical Circumftances, which correfpond exactly with Ferre-anah. 

 ΐϊ ^ϋΓ' Ferre-anah differs very little in Sound from Feraditana, of 

 p• 3*• which Name there were two Sees in the Middle Age. Though 

 it may be further obferved, that what is related of the Situa- 

 tion of Telepte, agrees likewife with this Place. And as Thala 

 (I prefume) is not mentioned in Hiftory later than by Tacitus'^, 

 (for Florus ' feems to fpeak of It as in the Time of Metellus,) 



I Ea fuga Jugurtha impenfius raodo rebus fuis diffidens, cum pcrfugis & parte cquitatus 

 in folitudincs, dcin 7"Mit»j pervenit. Id. 5-78. 2 Jugurtha poitquam, amifl'a TbaLt, 

 nihil fatis firmum contra Metellum putat, per magnas folicudinesj cum paucis piofcdus, pcr- 

 venit ad G<ef«/oi. Id. 5.82. 3 Inter TbaUm flumenque proxumum, in Ipatio millium 

 quinquaginta, loca arida atque valla efle cognoverat [Metellus)'ig\\.uT omnia jumcnta farcinis 

 levari jubet, nifi frumento dierum decern: ceterum ucrcs modo & alia aqux idonca 

 portari &c. 5-78. 4 Praefidium, cui Thala women. Tack. hnnu. \. i. c. 31. y Th.il.nii, 

 gravem armls, Thefauroque regis, dcttpah (Metellus). L. Flor. I.3. cap. i. 



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