THE PREFACE. 



fupplyed me with a great many Remarks , concerning the 

 Geography of That 'Province. 



The Civil War which raged in the Kingdom i?/ Tunis, 

 when 1 was there, (in the Tear 1727.) prevented me from 

 feeing the Frigeah, a^ they call the Weftern 'Part of the an- 

 tient Zeugitania. lam indebted therefore for the Infcrip- 

 tions and the Geographical Ohfervations of thofe Parts to 

 Father Francifco Ximenes, the Spanifti Admintjirador 

 at Tunis. 



77?^ curious Mr. Bernard JufTeau, Brother to the Pro- 

 fefjor of that Name at Paris, gave me Liberty to copy the 

 Infcriptions, which relate to Lambefe, from the ^.SMa- 

 nufcript of Dr. PoilTonel, who lately travelled over a great 

 Part of thefe Kingdoms , at the Expence of the French 

 King. Thefe indeed, and fever al other Infcriptions, deferve 

 to be particularly confidered', but I had not Leifure at this 

 Time to profecute fo laborious an Undertaking. 



The Provinces of Tj2i2\i, Wadreag, and other Southern 

 Diflricts of the Kingdom ^Algiers, are laid down from the 

 repeated Accounts, which I had of thofe Places, from the 

 Natives themf elves. We have frequent Opportunities of 

 converfing with a Number of Perfons of thefe different Coun- 

 tries, in almoji every City of Barbary ; and as I rarely found 

 them dif agree in their Accounts, lam per fwaded that I have 

 been very little, if at all, impofed upon by them. There wc^ no 

 other Way at leafi of Jupplying what was wanting to com- 

 pleat the Geography of thefe Parts ; fince it would certainly 

 have been too dangerous an Experiment for a Chriftian to 

 penetrate thus far into the Country. 



The fever al Names of Places andTrtbes are all of them 

 wrote according to our Englifh Pronunciation, and the Force 

 of our own Alphabet. The Arabic Names alfo, as often 

 as I could obtain them, are infer ted in their proper Cha- 

 ra^ers. The ArahicLetters *• gijm, 4 he, ^ waw, anfwer- 

 ing to our j, h, w, make thofe Words, wherein they occur ^ 

 have an eafier Tranfition into our Language, than into That 

 of the French or Italians ; whofe z^uthors, for Want 



of 



