26 Geographical Obfervations upon the Sea Coafl 



like oilr oldi Engltjh Caftles, with Battlements and Loop-Holes; 

 whereas the other is formed into diverfe Angles and Abutt- 

 ments, as the Figure of the Eminence, upon which It is li- 

 tuatedj would permit. The Specula \ taken Notice of by Go- 

 mecim, was probably at This Place: as the Vale, 1 have de- 

 fcribed, to the Weftward of It, will be His Angufiue, and Se- 

 des, {the Tack Saddle, as our Mariners call It,) through which 

 the Spaniards were to make Their Aflaults upon JVarran. 

 The Gates, \ ani to obfcrvc further, that Warran hath only two Gates, 

 'both of which open to the Valley. The Gate of the Sea, (for 

 fo They call the neareli of Them to the Port ) hath a large 

 fquare Tower built over It ; which, upon Occalion, might be 

 converted into a Fort. But^ adjoyning to the Upper Gate, 

 called the Gate of Tlemfan, there is an oblong Battery, with 

 feveral Ports for Cannon. The Cafauha or Cittadel, raifed up- 

 on the higheft Part of the City towards the N.W. was, though 

 without much Order, mounted in all the Angles of It with 

 Cannon; whilft the lower and oppofite Corner, towards the 

 N.E. and the Mers' el Seigh-hre, was defended by a Regular Ba- 

 flton. From all which Circumftances, Warran muft be confi- 

 dered as a Place of fome Confequence : and, had not a lur- 

 prizing Confternation infatuated the whole Country, upon the 

 firll landing of the Spaniards, would have given no fraall Check 

 to Their late fortunate Enterprize. 

 the Churches The Spauiards, when They firft poiTefTed This Place, built 

 the spani- ^ feveral beautiful Churches and other Edifices, in the Manner of 

 the Roman Architecture, but of lefs Strength and Solidity. 

 They have imitated the Romans further, in carving upon the 

 'Prizes,?ixA other convenient Places of Them,feveral Infcriptions, 

 in large Charaders, and in Their own Language. Over the 

 Portal of one of the Churches, which, upon Warrant being 

 recovered, in the Year MDCCVIII. by the Moors, was once 

 again a Place of Jewifj Worfliip, we have the following In- 

 fcription, that may ferve for a Specimen of the Lapidary Stile 

 of the Spani/h Nation. 



1 specula, qux Facts dicitur — eft in prserupto clivo qua, nofir'n afcenfus ad Oranum erat fu- 

 'turus. Locus ipfe arduiis eft, & undique rupibus inacceflis invius, prxterquam quibufdatn 

 y^ngufltis, quae ex Forma, Sedes ab Incolis appellatur. Juxta has Specula quam diximus con- 

 furgit, quajex alter^ parte Oranum, Metjalcab'ir ex alterl profpicit, face continue de Node 

 praelucente GrAcorum Phar'is non admodum abfimilis. Sequebatur ftatim Oranum urbs celfo 

 quodam in colle pofita, mcenibus & turribus ac loci fitu munita, quae mari altera parte allui- 

 tur, altera variis pomariis ac irriguis fontlbus cinda, in fui cupidinem qucmvis rcgem pelli- 



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