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fifty Miles, lyes beyond the faid Mountains towards the Mul- 

 looiah, the Maha ' of the old Geography. 



That remarkable Chain of Hills,whicli 1 fometimes find placed TheMouvtaim 

 betwixt thefe Countries, and the Sahara, and fometimes with- 

 in the Tell, I take to be the Aftrixis ' of Orofms, and a Conti- 

 nuation or Part of Mount Atlas': though they are not always 

 of that extraordinary Height, or Bignefs, which have been at- 

 tributed to them by Antiquity*. Thofe Parts of them which 

 I have feen, are rarely, if ever equal to fome of the greater 

 Mountains of our own Ifland ; and I queftion, whether they 

 can any where Hand in Competition with either the Alpes, or 

 the Appenmnes. If we conceive a Number of Hills, ufually 

 of the perpendicular Height of four, five, or fix Hundred Yards, 

 with an eafy Afcent, and feveral Groves of Fruit and Forreft- 

 Trees, rifing up in a Succeffion of Ranges one behind another ; 

 and if to this Profpeft, we here and there add a rocky Preci- 

 pice of a fuperiour Eminence and difficult Accefs, and place 

 upon the Side, or Summit of it, a mud-walled 2)^/&^r^^ [vCLo] 

 or Village of the Kahyles\ w^e fliall then have ajuft and lively 

 Idea of thefe Mountains, without giving Heed to the nodturnal 

 Flames, melodious Sounds, or the lafcivious Revels of fuch 

 imaginary Beings, as the Antients * have in a peculiar Manner 

 attributed to this Place. 



Some of the old Geographers have obferved,that thefe Moun- rheYi^x\%&c. 

 tains were called "Byr'is and Ad'tris, or T)yr'im -xndi Adderim^ by^/wfi or 

 the Indigence or firft Inhabitants ; but have not attempted to give 

 us the Signification of thefe Words. Bochart ^ obferves, that 

 Atlas was called T>yrh by the Thmiiclans, perhaps from [ "inx ' ] 

 Addir, great or mighty ; and upon the Coaft of the Tingitania,WQ 

 find Rujfadirum [puwa^,] mentioned by Mela^Tlin/^Ttolemy, 

 and the Itinerary^', the fame Name the Moors give at prefent 

 to Cape Bon, the Tromontorium Mercurii ; and by which they 

 would denote a very large and confpicuous Cape, or Fore-hand. 

 Dyrim therefore, by fupplying [^^^ ] Tor, [ c>=^ ] Had, or [ Ja^. ] 

 Jihhel, might fignify the Mountains of 7)yris, or Atlas, or 

 iimply, the Great Mountains only, or that remarkable Chain of 

 them, which, in the Phrafe oiOrofni^, dimded the fruitful Land 



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