14 Geographical Ohfervattons upon the Sea Coajl 



sheiifffTr Three Miles to the N.W. oiKidmeetrt, is the Mouth of the 



China- Rivet Shelliff, 2i Corruptioii of the Ch'malaph of the old Geo- 



p.j). D. graphy. This is the moil noted River of the Kingdom^ and 



arifeth in the Sahara, at the Diftance of fourfcore Miles, to 



the S.E. The Fountains of It, called from Their Number and 



Contiguity, [c/^^c u^«^- Sehheine Ame or Sehaoun Aioun'\ The 



Seventy Fountains, are no fooner united, than they fall into 



the Channel of the Nahr WaJJel, a little adjacent Brook, which, 



upon this Conflux, lofeth It's Name. 



TheRhuietof Thc firft Courfe of the Shelliff\ for the Space of thirty two 



Midroe. ^.., . , _ _ , , -r i • t 



Miles, is to the Eaftward ; where It takes in the Rivulet of 

 Midroe, a Village of the Sahara, at the Diftance of ten Leagues 

 from The Seventy Fountains. From the Influx of this Rivulet 

 to the Precindls of the City Medea, forty Miles farther, the 

 Shelliff h.z\h. a more Northerly Direction ; 'till, receiving the 



beeni!'" Harbeene, It immediately changeth It's Courfe to the Well- 

 ward, and continueth afterwards to run nearly in a Parallelifm 

 with the Sea Coaft. 



Sckhf «'' After the Barheene, the next confiderable Contribution to 



IJ;;//'' the Shelliff, is from The \^Wed el [i^>a»] Fuddah'] River of 

 Tlate, fourteen Leagues to the Weft ward. This River hath 

 It's Sources at Wan-naJJj-reefe ', a high rugged Mountain, ge- 

 nerally covered with Snow, and remarkable for It's Mines of 

 Lead Oar. In great Rairts, many Fleaks and Sparkles of This 

 Mineral are brought down by the River, which being after- 

 wards left upon the Banks and glittering in the Sun, give Oc- 

 calion to the Name. Several Geographers have been miftaken 

 in deducing the River Shelliff", inftead of This Branch of It 

 only, from the fVan-nafh-reefe. 



TheAthcw. Seven Leagues to the W.S.W. of the ^ed el Fuddah, over 

 againft Mazouna, the Shelliff' \<i further augmented by the Ar- 

 hew, which hath It's Fountains fix Leagues to the N. N. W. of 

 the Sehheine Aine, and runs almoft parallel with the Mina. 



The Mina. The Shelliff recQivQs the Mina at the Diftridl of El-mi/dy-ga, 

 five Leagues to the Weft ward of Arhew, and fifteen to the 

 S.E. oijihhel Difs. It confifts of two Branches : the Weftermoft 



. iGiunfens vifendae altitudinis mons.^.Leop.zo^. 2 Ex montc ^F<^«-«^-^ff/f•[■^J.u^^^»b."] 



fcaturit fluvius Selif £ cJiJi.^ ] Celebris. Eft fluvius magnus, qui increfcit dum c^teri flu- 



vii decrefcunt, inftar Nili Egypt't. Elm Said in Abulf. ut fupra. 5c/i/magnus fluvius, ex Gtun- 

 fer'ts montibus originem ducens, per incultas planitics ad Confinia Rcgnorum Tcnez. ac Tc- 

 lenftn labltur, atque hinc Mazagranum i Mufleganl difterminans [ quo fallitur'] mare Mediter- 

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