In the Country of the Weftern-Moors. 17 



the Beni-Zenejfel, (or Jefneten' as Leo calls them) a no lefs »«« 2^^»#^/. 

 powerful Tribe of Kahyles, who^ fecure in their Numbers and 

 Situation, have not hitherto been obliged to pay any Tribute 

 to the Tingitan'ians. Ttolemy encourages us to fearch for the montes 

 Chalcorychian Mountains, and the Seat of the antient/Ze'rpi^^i-RvcHn?' 

 tani at this Place. ■vHV.^exc, 



We fliould not leave This Country without obferving, that^S^rj:^ tra^ 

 during the long Reign of the late Muley IJhmael, Thefe, ns^tllofMa- 

 well as the Parts of It more immediately influenced by the CVzJeylihmaeL 

 pita/, were under fo llrid: a Government and Regulation, that, 

 notwithftanding the Numbers of Arahs who are every where 

 in the Way, intent, every one of Them, upon Plunder and Ra- 

 pine; yet a Child, (according to Their Manner of fpeaking) 

 might fafely carry a Tiece of Money upon hU Ha?id from one 

 End of the Kingdom to another, whilft the Merchant travelled 

 from Salee to TVoojeda, and from Tanger to Taffilett, without 

 Danger, or Moleftation. 



CHAR III. 



Geographical Ohfervations upon the Sea-Coaft of that Part 

 of the Mauritania C^farienfis, "which is called at pre- 

 fent the JVeftern Province or the Province of Tlemfan- 



LEAVING Mai fear da and Woojeda at fome Diftance to the r,oe general 

 Weftward, we enter upon Twunt and the Mountains of S^tK" 

 Trara. Thefe are the Confines of This Province to the Weft, 

 as the River Ma- faff ran, at near two hundred Miles Diftance, 

 will bound It to the Eaft. The Whole is almoft equally diftri- 

 buted into Mountains and Valleys ; and had It been better fup- 

 plied with Rivers and Fountains, would be a more delightful, 

 as It was always accounted a more fertil Diftri6l ' in general, than 

 the eaftern Part of This Kingdom. 



* &0»The Kabjles or African Tribes have generally Eheni [Ui\ j or Bent prefixed to the Names 

 of their refpeftivc Heads or Founders; as Beni-Zenejfel, Benl-Madooni &c. Whereas [<>)«"] 

 Welled is the Term made ufc ofamongft the Arah; as Welled-Halfa, Welled-Ze'ire 8zc. Both 

 have the fame Signification and denote the Sons or OfFfpring oi Zeneffel, Haifa, &c. or the 

 Zeneffeltdes , Halfides &c. as the antient Greeks, and Romans would have called Them, i Beni 

 Jefneten, Telenfmi mons diftat a Telenfmo occidentem verfus quinquaginta fere pafluum Millia. 

 — extendit in longum viginti quinque, in latum quindecim fere miliaria; altiflimus eftj ar- 

 duus, afcenfuque difficillimus. J. Leo: p. 204. 2 Quae pars Num'id'u Mauritaniam attingit,^ 

 agro virifque opulcntior &c. Sail. Bell. Jug. 5-ip- p- 278. ' ' 



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>vnice. 



