of the Wejiern Province. 5 ^ 



where They border upon the River Hahrah, are called Roma- 

 ieah ; perhaps from The [ J-t; riimmel ] fnndy Quality of the 

 Soil. 



ElCallaJj, the great Market of this Country for Carpets andEi Caikh, 

 Burnoofes, lyeth about four Leagues to the S.E. of Thefe Plains, lui .r af, 

 and eight to the S. S. E. of Mufiy-ganntm. It is a dirty ill con- p.n.b.'''* 

 trived Town, without any Drains or Caufeways, built, as the 

 Name* imports, upon an Eminence, and in the Midft of a 

 Chain of other Mountains. There are feveral Villages of the 

 fame Nature and in a like Situation round about It, all of Them 

 employed in the fame Manufadures. The Turks have here a 

 fmall Garrifon and Citadel ; and, from fome large Stones and 

 Pieces of Marble, that are here and there to be met with, we 

 have fome Reafon to believe It to have been formerly a City 

 of the Romans, the Gitlui or Apfar perhaps of Ttolemy. Dap- 

 per ' and San [on make It His u4toa or Urbara ; but both Thefe 

 Places are too near the Meridians of the River ^ffura and the 

 Great Tort, to have any Pretenfions to El Callah. 



Five Leagues to the S.W. of El Callah, is the Town oi Maf- Mafcar, or 



Victoria 



car, or El Mafcar, another of the larger Collections of mud- £-«• ^i>id. 

 walled Houfes of This Province. It is fituated in a fine Plain, 

 and in the Neighbourhood of feveral lefler Villages hke El Cal- 

 lah'^ but the little Fort that defends It from any fudden Revolt 

 of the Arahs, is not allowed to have a Turk't/Jj Garrifon. San- 

 fon ' may very juftly make This Place the antient Fi(^ori^,though 

 in placing It fixty Miles to the S.W. of Warran, He gives It 

 a very different Pofition from the true one, which is thirteen 

 Leagues to the S. S.E. 



Round about the Sources of the River Abdt, thirty Miles tosbeebah, or 

 the S. hy E. oi Mafcar, upon the Borders of the Sahara, is a ran o^ari- 

 Knott of Z)^yZ>^r^jr, 2i^Erendah, G'tran, Tagazoute, and Shee-^^' 

 bah, inhabited chiefly by Arabs. Sbeebah hath for fome Time 

 been evacuated ; but the others are built upon Places of fuch 

 difficult Accefs, that the Turks could never oblige the Inhabi- 

 tants to be Their Tributaries. There are feveral Fragments of 

 '^Roman Walls at Sheebah, which may therefore have the greateft 

 Pretence to be the Rttia ; as G'tran, from a Similitude of Sound, 

 may prove to be the Arina of the Antients. 



* 'iXi [ cdith ] cacumen, vertex. &c. vid. Qol. in voce, i Vid. AtUs Geogr. Vol. 4. 

 p.2ii. 2 Ibid. 



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