ofit, 



Tke Breadth. 



Geographical Ohfervations 



The Levgth ^anfon\ in bounding this Kingdom with the Rivers Muhia 

 ^nd Barhar, as he cA\QththeMullooiahiind the Zame, maketh it 

 nine hundred Miles from Eaft to Weft ; De la Croix % feven hun- 

 dred and twenty; Luyts\ by reckoning forty eight Miles and an 

 half for one of his Degrees of Longitude, allowethittobeabout 

 fix hundred and thirty; whereas others* confine it to a lefs 

 Extent. But according to the exadleft Obfervations I could 

 make my felf, or receive from others, I find the true Length 

 from Twunt to Ta-harha, to be only about four hundred and 

 fixty Miles ; the Firft of thefe Places being fituated, below the 

 Mountains ofTrara, in o°. i6' W.Long, from London\ and the 

 Latter, upon the River Zatne, in 9°. 16'. to the Eaft. 



There is not the like Difagreement among our Geographers, 

 in Relation to the Breadth ; though none of them ' make it 

 lefs than one hundred and fifty Miles, where it is narroweft, 

 nor more than two hundred and forty, where it is broadeft. 

 The Breadth indeed, though much fliort of thefe Accounts, is 

 not every where the fame : for near Tlem-fmi, it is not above 

 forty Miles from the Sahara to the Sea Coaft ; near the Sources 

 of the Rivers Si^, Hahra, and SheUiff, it is about fixty ; which, 

 in the weftern Part of this Kingdom, may be taken at a Mean, 

 for the Extent of what the ^rahs call [ Tell, d--^ ] or Land pro- 

 per for Tillage. But to the Eaftward of Algiers, the Breadth 

 of this Kingdom is more confiderable ; and in the Meridians par- 

 ticularly oiBoujeiah,Jtjel and Bona, it is never lefs than a hun- 

 dred Miles : nay fometimes more ; as from Jtjel, in N. Lat. 3 6°. s s', 

 toLwO'taiah, fituated among theMountainsof-^/Z«iy, in 34°. j-o'. 

 TheBominkn Thc Domlnion which the Algerines have beyond the Tell, 

 ofthe k\gt- ^jjg more advanced Parts of the Mountains oi y4tlas\ is 



rines tn tne -' 



Sahara. ygj-y uncertain and precarious : for which Reafon I have fixed 

 the proper Boundaries and Limits of this Kingdom that Way, 



indomita, inaui!, inhumana, beftial : y por tanto tuiio porcierto razon, el que ia pocos ams 

 aca acofturnbro llamar a efla terra, Barbaria, pues &c. D. Haedo de la captluidad, en fit Topogr. 

 e Hifior. deArgel.Tp.iz6. VuUad.1612. i Le Royaume d'y^/^^reftlepare vers '' Occident dix 

 Royaume de Fez, par les Riv. de ZIms et de Mtilvta: vers 1' Orient eft fcp? ^ de celuy de 

 Tunis, par la Riv. Guadil Barbar: le midy eft convert des montagnes d' Atlas, qui le feparent 

 du Segelmeffe, du Tegorarhi, et de Zeb parties de B'lledulgerid. Sa longueur d' Occident 

 en Orient approche de 300 lieues j fa largeur eft de fo, 60 ou de 7J lieues. L'y^frique en plu- 

 fieurs cartes nouvelles &c. p. 23. par le S'' Sanfon d' Abbeville Sec. a Paris. i6S^. 2 Son eten- 

 duede T Eft a 1' Oiieft eft de 240 lieues; &du SudauNord de 70 en fa plus grande longueur, 

 Nouvelle methode pour aprendre la Geograpbie Vniverf. par le Siettr de la Croix. Tom. y. p. 280. 

 a Paris 170 j. 3 Regnumy^;^en4Ka!Mlongiffime ab occafu in ortum difpjnditur, k gradu cir- 

 citer XVIII ad ufque gradum XXXI : at ab auftro in boream, ubi vol latiOimum eft, laticudi- 

 neni non habet IV graduum. J. Luyts Introd. ad Geographiatn. p.669. Traj. ad Rbenum. 1692. 

 4 Vid. Molls Geography Part.2. p. 1/^.6. Lond.1722. Atlas Geograph. Vol. IV. p. 182. y Vid. 

 Not.2. &c . tf £xf. pag.2. E. P.30.A. fi Barbaria ab znHro lima eH Biledulgeridia, )i qai 

 mens y^tlas ipfum dividit. Lujts Introd. p.662. WX)- 



