41 Geographical Ohfer^oations upon the Sea Coafl 



thority. Yet if we may be allowed to make the fameDedu6lions 

 XXXV m/m here, that feem neceffary to be made from the s"- laid down 

 9'ptdemy'/ by the fame Author, betwixt his Ccefarea and Saldis (the pre- 

 ?I5-" "^ fent Boujeiah ; ) Cafarea will have the Pofition, I have here 

 given It, at Sher-Jhell. For, the true Diftance of the Meri- 

 dian at Arzew from That o^ Boujeiah, being (a little more or 

 lefs) CCXC Roman Miles, there will be only about XXXV for 

 one of His Degrees of Longitude; according to which Account, 

 CX Miles ( anfwering to 3°. 10'. ) lliould be the proportional 

 Parts, as within five or fix Miles they a^lually are, betwixt the 

 Meridians of Arzew and Sher-JJjell. 

 RomaiiM7« 'Plmy ' likcwife, in sivinsi; us MXXXIX Miles for the Length 



Jlorter than -^ n r ^ ^ 1 • r\ r 



they are gene- of thc Mauritania , or the Diftance of the yitlantic Ocean from 

 7el """^" the R.iver y^mpfaga, maketh the Roman Miles much fhorter 

 than They are generally computed ; and thereby will furnifh us 

 with another Argument for the Proof of what we are endea- 

 vouring to afcertain. For the true Diftance being DCCCXXI, 

 the CCCXXII affigned by Him for that Portion of the Mauri- 

 tania lying betwixt Cafarea and the River ^mpfaga, will be 

 reduced to CCLX ; which,by Obfervation, I find to be the Num- 

 ber of Miles betwixt the Riy er ^mpfaga (or Great River as It is 

 now called) and Sher-JJjell. 

 jj/T-fj- Hani- The Country round about This City is of the utmoft Ferti- 



eni &c. -' r- 1 1 ■* 



lity, and exceedingly well watered. We crofs the Brooks Naf- 

 Jard, Billach, and fome others, before we come to the HaJIj- 

 em, the moft confiderable of Them, at the Diftance of feven 

 ch. yz A L T J^iles from Sher-Jhell to the E. The Billack runs by Jim-mell, 

 £>Y.p.ii.F. jin old ruined Town, the Chozala perhaps oiTtolemy, fituated 

 under a high rocky Precipice, four Miles to the S.S.E. of Sher- 

 Jhell, and at the like Diftance to the W. ky N. of the Foun- 

 tains of the Ha/h-em. A little Way to the Northward of 

 ";.^-'=»'Thefe Fountains, the ^/i2:m^6'^ have a Fortrefs, with a iZma- 



•ijon of JO ^ V 



"'"^ la as They call the) Garrifon of Moors and yirahs, placed there 

 to interrupt the Incurfions of the Beni Menajfer. Nothing 

 certainly can be more entertaining, than That Variety of Pro- 

 Ipefts, we every where meet with, all over this delightful Coun- 

 try. 

 The Moun- fhe high Mountain of Shenooah is five Miles to the North- 



tain of She- o 



ward of This Fortrefs, and fomething more to the E. N. E. of 



.rti i I Exc. p. al. E. 



'''^' Sher- 



The Z 



or Garrifon of 



Moors 

 Arabs. 



nooah. 



