Of the Wefiern Vrovince. 1 9 



lax, the lOand that forms the Port of the HarJJj-goone, un- 

 der which VelTels of the greateft Burthen may lye in the ut- 



moft Safety. 



From the Mouth of the River Tafna, the Sea-Coaft^ for a 

 httle way, has an Eafterly Diredtion; after which, as far as the 

 Ras ' y^zintoure, (the Cape Figalo of our Sea-Charts) It inchnes, 

 by fcveral Turnings, nine Leagues to the Northward. This re- 

 markable Winding of the Shore, from Mellack all along to 

 Azintoure^ forms a confiderable Gulph, that is called Har/Jj- Haifligoonc, 



r.- r H /r 1 nrthehATV- 



goone by the Moors, the Laturus Sinm perhaps or Mela, and rus sinus. 

 the Harefgol^ of Leo and the later Geographers; though mif- 

 taken, I prefume, by Them All, for the Name of a City. 



The feveral Dafikras to the Weftward of the Tafna, are wooihafa. 

 called Wool-hafa, after the Name of Their Inhabitants. The 

 Same may have been communicated by Them to the Mountain 

 mentioned by Leo\ 



Upon the weftern Banks of the Tafna, almoft contiguous to 

 the Sea, are the Ruins of the antient Siga, once a Royal-City 

 of the Numidian Kings*. It's prefent Name is Tachim-hreet , Tackum- 

 the Tehecritum ^ probably oi Leo ; though from His calling Te~ 

 hecntum a Village, placing It upon a Rock, and affigning the 

 Africans as the Founders of It, it will by no means anfwer to 

 Tackum-hreet \ but will better agree with the Defcription Leo 

 has left us of His Harefgol. 



The Tafna, the moft confiderable River of This Province The xafna 

 to the Weftward of the SheU'tff, is compofed of feveral Branches ;/rr "swa- 

 the principal of which are the Bar-ha-ta, the Tafna, the Sikack, 

 and tht IJ/er. The Bar-ha-ta defcends from the S.W; and, be- Barbata, 

 fore It enters the Mountains of Trara, receives, as I judge 

 from the Situation of the adjacent Parts, the River of ^o;>- 

 da. The Tafna, which is the moft confiderable of thefe Branches Tafna, 

 and receives the reft, continues It's Name to the Sea : and rifes 

 in the Mountains of the Beni-Snou[e\ an African Tribe, who 

 inhabit Their feveral Vajhkras about thirty Miles to the South- 



I |0" ti>X">, o^\i R<M, Caput ;& per y?yfr<i;>i!;. S\imvaii3.%c\x]\i^''i\>cixc\,cacumen,vertex. vid. 

 Scb'tnd. in voce. A Cape or Head-Land. 2 Harefgol maximum atque antiquiffimum in fcopu- 

 lo quodam mari Mediterraneo undique cindum fuit, prjeterquam in Meridic, ubi via erarquje 

 in oppidum ducebat. A Telenfino Septcncrionem verfiis, in 14 fitum fuit Milliario. J. Leo. p. 

 192. y^tLis Geogr. Vol.iv. p. 212. 3 Giulbufa mons altKfimus oppido //«H4i» vicinus eft. J. 

 Zifo. p.204. 4 Exc.p. 6. D. p. 2.2.E. p. z^.cap. x<;. wld.Ajfarian. HiJf.Gen.de Hijp. 1. 2. c. 23. p. 80. 

 J TebccYitum exiguum oppidum ab Afris in quodam icopulo ad mare Meditenaneum excru- 

 ftum eft. J. Lfo. p. 191. 



E 2 ward 



