Of the Wefiern Trov'ince. 4.7 



Rivers: to defcribe the reft of them m Order, or as they arer/-^ mou„. 

 fituated with Refpect to Thefe Rivers and the correfpondentrar'" 

 Part of the Sea Coaft, we are to return to the Mountains of 

 Trara, which are a beautiful and confpicuous Knot of Emi- 

 nences, furnifliing the Markets of Tlem-Jan with all Manner 

 of Fruit. 

 Nedrotna ' or Nedrome is placed hard bv Thefe Mountains, Nedrome, c- 



^ . Ill/- 1 • Celama. 



a little to the S. E. oiTwtmt. It is remarkable tor nothmgEvf-puc. 

 elfe at prefent befides If s Potteries; though the Fruitfulnefs of 

 the circumjacent Country and the fine Situation, fliould induce 

 us to believe It to have been formerly a Place of greater Con- 

 fequence ; the Celama, or Urhara perhaps, of Ttolemy. 



Seven Leagues to the S. E. of Nedrome, are the Mountains Bem-Snoufe. 

 of the Bern Snonfe, in as great Repute for the Goodnefs of Their 

 Figs and Pomegranates, as the Beni 5«o/^ Themfelves are noted 

 for the Number of Their Mud-walled Villages. Of Thefe, Tef- Tefzra. 

 zra is the moft confiderable ; though we cannot well receive 

 It for the Aflacilis oi Ttolemy , which will be more convenient- 

 ly fixed at another Place. 



Five Leagues to the S. S. E. of the Mouth of the Tafna, isTiemfan. 

 the City Tremefen, as the modern Geographers write It ; The 

 [ uUu4.ii ] Telemjan or Tlem-Jan according to the Pronunciation 

 of the Moors, and Arahs. It is fituated upon a rifing Ground, 

 below a Range of rocky Precipices, the Sachratain (as we may sachratain. 

 take Them to be) oiEdrifi^ and upon the firft Ridge of Them^ 

 (for there lyeth another much higher to the Southward) we 

 have a large Strip of level Ground, that burfts out, in every 

 Part of It, with Fountains. Thefe, uniting by Degrees, into little 

 Streams, fall afterwards in a Variety of Cafcades in Their Ap- 

 proaches to Tlem-Jan. The ^nnajrani ' oiEdrifi feems to have Annafranr, 

 been made by the Weftermoft of Thefe Fountains, which ftill 



I Ned-Roma in fpatlofiirimo campo extrm5lum,diftat ik montc duobus fere milliai-ihus,atque 

 huic vicinum quoddam flumen non admodum latum. Scriptum reliquerunt iftius temporis 

 Hiftoriographi ad unum eundemque quo Roma aedificata fuit modum, unde &; nomen [ Ned 

 enim apud Arabes idem prorfus atque/imi//^ nobis fignificat ] dedudtum arbitrantur. y. Leo. 

 p. 161. 2 Telemfan componitur duabus urbibus muro diftindis ; liabet i meridie montem, 

 qui vocatur Sachratain, [i.e. duo Saxa] atque in ifto monte contra meridionalem urbis plagam 

 porrefto funtvineae : & ad ejus radices molendinae fccus ingentem rivum aquse dulcis, rapi- 

 dseque, qui rivus appellatur Rivus Annafrani-y [i.e. Clmfttani; ] ad hunc rivum extructa func 

 monafteria, oratoria, aliaque Religioforum aedificia, cum viridariis ampliflimis ; & nomina- 

 tur ibi rivus ille Alftiara [ i.e. Scaturiginis] & inde ad urbem ufque fe extendit. Non longe 

 ab eadem urbe extat fons Celebris, fons Oin labia [ i.e. Matris fobannh] diftus, e quo rivus 

 in urbem influens concluditur in lacum, ac turn dilpenfatur in demos, irrigationes hortorum, 

 balnea, cauponcs & fimilia. Geogr. Nab'ten. p-79- 3 Vid.Not. ut fupra. 



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