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of it ; on the contrary, I do aver, in the face of thefe fantaf- 

 tic prejudices, that I have ate the flefh of lions, that is, part 

 of three lions, in the tents of Welled Sidi Boogannim. The 

 firfl was a he-lion, lean, tough, fmelling violently of raufk, 

 and had the tafte which, I imagine, old horfe-flefh would 

 have. The fecond was a lionefs, which they faid had that 

 year been barren. She had a conliderable quantity of fat 

 within her ; and, had it not been for the mufky fmell that 

 the flefh had, though in a lefTer degree than the former, 

 and for our foolifh prejudices againfl it, the meat, when 

 broiled, would not have been very bad. The third was a 

 a lion's whelp, fix or feven months old ; it tailed, upon the 

 whole, the worfl of the three. I confefs I have no defire 

 of being again ferved with fuch a morfel ; but the Arabs s 

 a brutifh and ignorant folk, will, I fear, notwithftanding 

 the difbelief of the univerfity of Oxford, continue to eat lions 

 as long as they exift.. 



From Hydra I pafled to the ancient Tipafa*, another 

 Roman colony, going by the fame name to this day. Here 

 is a mofl extenfive fcene of ruins. There is a large tem- 

 ple, and a four-faced triumphal arch of the Corinthian or- 

 der, in the very befl tafle ; both of which are now in the 

 collection of the King. . 



I here crofTed the river Myfkianah, which falls into the 

 Bagrada, and continuing through one of the mofl beautiful 

 and befl-cultivated countries in the world, I entered the 

 «aflern province of Algiers, now called Conflantina, ancient- 



Pjol. Geog. Ilk. iv. p. 1 06. 



