^6 Geographical Obfervations upon the Sea Coajl 



weUed You- Salt; here likewife the Welled Tou-noofe have their Encamp- 

 ments. 



Tenn'is!"^ 7>/{/} or Tetinu hath a low dirty Situation, ( as the Name ' 

 may probably inlinuate) lying fixteen Miles to the E.N.E. of 

 the Zour el Ha-mam, at a fmall Diftance from the Sea. Be- 

 fore the Conquefts of the Barbaroff^, It was the Metropolis of 

 one of the petty Kingdoms of this Country; though a few mi- 

 ferable Houfes, built in the fame Manner with Thofe, before 

 defcribed, at Maifearda, are all that remain of It at prefent. 

 A little Brook runs winding by Them^which afterwards emptieth 

 It felfj over againft a fmall adjacent Ifland, into the Sea. Tnifs 

 hath been a long Time famous for the great Quantity of Corn 

 fhipped off from thence to Chriftendom : but the Road before 

 It, lying too much expofed to Wefterly and Northerly Winds, 

 Veflels are frequently call away, as at Hammeefe and Magrowa 

 unlefs They fall in with a Seafon of calm Weather. 



Thechar^aer Thc Moors have a Tradition, that the Tn'iJJians were for- 



tanu. " ' merly in fuch Reputation for Sorcery, that Tharaoh fent for 

 the wifeft of Them to difpute Miracles with Mojes. They 

 are ftill the greateft Cheats of all This Country, and as little 

 to be trufted as Their Road. Hammet Ben Ufeph, a late neigh- 

 bouring Ma-rah-hutt, hath thus' branded the Place and Inha- 

 bitants. 



Tennis is huilt upon a 'Dunghill, 



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The Water of it is Blood, 



^nd the Air is Toifon, 



And Hammet Ben Ufeph doth not come there. 



Tnifs, The Sanfon and others make Tnifs the Julia defarea of the An- 

 Exf?P°9?D. tients ; though the Ifland, I have mentioned, feems to be the 



I t>i»^Ai (Tennis) feems to hethe ftime Name with the Tanis <»/ Egypt, from f'£3 (Tin) Clay, 

 or Mud ; rendered by the Greeks mhimy,from mhit, a. Word of the like Signification in their Lan- 



guage. 



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Mabaneah alt den-nis, t>u<sio ^c Sa^v* 



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Ma dim, ^^^ \,^ 



wahowaSim, Wa ^ 



wa Hamet ben Ufeph ma dakjiul thim. 'i Jka>.t> U Uu^kJ (;>> o-*t^ ^ 



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