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El Herba. 



Geographical Ohjervations in the Inland Tarts 



Travelling down the Mountains of the Bent Rajhid, we come 

 to El Herha, formerly a Roman City, more than a Mile in 

 Circuit. It is fituated upon the Brink of the Shelliff, two Leagues 

 to the E.S.E. of the Village of the Beni Rajhid, haying a narrow 

 Strip of plain fertil Ground to the Northward. Here are fe- 

 veral fmall Marble Pillars, of a blewifh Colour and good Work- 

 manfhip, but the Capitals, which were of the Corinthian Or- 

 der, are defaced. There are belides, feveral Tombs likeThofe 

 at Memounturroy ; and upon One of the Covers, fcouped,at the 

 Top of It, in the following Fafliion, we have This imperfedt 

 Infcription. ^;-.. 



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M. - MORI L. - 



SECVNDIANI - - 



VIC. XII ANNI - - 



XIII LVCIO. - - 



El Herba; 



Maniana, or 

 Maliana, The 

 Maniana 

 or Mallia- 

 NA. 'Exc. 

 p.II.D.p.K). 



Seven Miles to the E. of El Khadarah, at a little Diftance 

 from the Shelliff, we have the Ruins of another Roman Town, 

 of the fame Name and Extent with the former. Here the -iS/jf/- 

 /i^begins to wind Itfelf through a Plain, not inferiour, in Ex. 

 tent and Fertility, to any of This Country: the Mountains 

 likewife of Atlas, which, from the Beni Zernvall to El Kha- 

 darah, hung immediately over the Shelliff, retire now two 

 Leagues to the Northward. 



t Maniana or Maliana, as It is indifferently called by the 

 Inhabitants, is fituated upon Thefe Mountains, half a Mile above 

 This PlaiUjand two Leagues to the E.N.E. oiElHerha. It lyeth 

 expofed to the S. and S. W. promifing a large Scene of Build- 

 ings and Antiquities at a Diftance ; but the Fatigue of climbing 

 up to It, is badly recompenfed with the Sight only of a fmall 

 Village, whofe Houfes are covered with Tiles inftead of Ter- 

 rafs, according to the ordinary Practice of the Country. How- 

 ever, 



