of the TVeftern Vrovince. 4^ 



Sher-pjell. This Eminence ftretcheth It felf more than two 

 Leagues along the Sea Shore, and is covered, to the very Sum- 

 mit of It, with a Succeffion of deUcate Plats of arable Ground, 

 hedged in, almoft every where, with Fruit Trees. The eaftern 

 Point of It, known by the Name of the Ras el A-moufljc forms R^^f^^' a- 

 a large Bay, called the Mers' el y4-mouJJjc, where Vellels lye 

 fheltered from the W. and N.W. Wmds. EdrifV calls the Pro- 

 montory Battal, and the Atlas Geograph7is '- the Carapula and 

 Giraflumar of the Mahometans ; but Thefe Names are un- 

 known, at this Time, to that peaceable Branch of the Betj't Me- 

 najfer, who are the prefent Inhabitants. 



Berin-JJjell, a rocky Ifland, taken Notice of likewife by Edr'i/i\ ^P^^f Berin- 

 lyeth half a Mile to the N. hj W. of the Ras el A-mou/Jje. In 

 a late Revolt of the Beni Menaffer, This Place, 'till they were 

 afterwards attacked by Sea,ferv'd fuch of Them, who could fwim 

 over to It, as a Sanftuary from the Fury of the Algerines. They 

 are very fond of telling Strangers, how, upon This Occalion, 

 Harnett Shenooy, one of their Brethren, and an Inhabitant latelv 

 of £7 Coleah, faved Himfelf and a little Child,by taking It upon 

 His Back, and fwimming with It from thence to the Port of 

 El Coleah, at twenty Miles Diftance. 



The River Gurmaat falls into the Sea a little to the Eaft-r/^? Gur- 

 ward of the Mers" el A-moupje. It is made up of the feveral 

 Rills of Water, that fall from the Mountain oi Shenooah. One 

 of Thefe Sources, received into a fquare Bafon of Roman Work- 

 manfhip, goes by the Name of {Shrub we hrub o>a ^ ^^c. ] Drink shmb we 

 and away, from the Danger of meeting with Rogues and Af- 

 faflins at This Place. 



Two Miles to the Eaftward of This Fountain, under the Biedah. 

 Shade of Shenooah, we fee feveral Fragments of Mud-walls, 

 the only Remains of Bleedah, fome Years ago a confiderable 

 Village of the Arabs. 



When we have palled the Gurmaat, we fall in with a Num- Tefeffad or 

 ber of Stone Coffins, of an oblong Figure, not unlike thofe that Joone. 

 are fometimes dug up in our own Ifland. A little farther to 

 the Eaft, under a rifmg Ground, are the Ruins of Tefeffad, or 

 'Tfejfady called likewife Blaidel Madoone %which extend Them- 



I A Serfdl ad Promontorlum Battal, qaod in mare procurrir, habentur xii M.P. Refpon- 

 det huic Promontorio parva qusdam Infula in mare. Geogr. Nub. p.8<J. 2 yitl.Geogr. Vol. 4. 

 p. 207. 5 Vid. Not. I. 4 Or .r4-w;4doo»f, from the High Buildings. vid.Go/. in voce oUc 



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