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Betwixt This and the lower Bath, we have the Ruins of an n.^ a^v^ 



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old Roman Town, equal to that of El Herba ; and at a little coi. exc. 

 Diftance from Them, there are feveral Tombs and Coffins of'''"' 

 Stone, fome of which, I was informed, were of an unufual Big- 

 nefs. Muzerattj, the late ( Kakefa ) Lieutenant of this Pro- 

 vince, alTured me, that He fiiw a thigh Bone belonging to one 

 of Them, which was near two of Their T)raas or thirty fix 

 Inches, in Length; the like Account I had from other Turks, 

 who pretended, at the fame Time, to have meafured It. But 

 when I was at Thefe Baths, half a Year afterwards, I could not 

 receive the lead Information about It : and the Graves and Cof- 

 fins that fell under my Obfervation, were only of the ufual Di- 

 menfions. However, the People of This, as well as of other 

 Countries, are every where full of Stories and Traditions of 

 This Nature'; which, provided Thefe fliould not be human 

 Bones, ( and the Africans are no nice Diftinguifhers ) we may 

 poffibly account for, from a Cuftom, that I have fome where 

 read of, among the Goths and Vandals, which might pafs over 

 with Them into Africa, of burying the Horfe, the Rider and 

 their Armour together in the fame Grave. Long Swords, with 

 large Handles in the Shape of a Crofs, have been often found 

 in This Country : of which Sort, there is one ftill preferved in 

 the T>ey\ Palace zX. Algiers, not many Years ago dug out of the 

 Ruins of Temendfuje, the Rufgunite Colon'ia of the Itinerary. 



The Country round about Thefe Baths, is made up of a Succef- rhe ?iah,s of 

 fion of exceeding rugged Hills and deep Valleys, each of Them jiah.' ' 

 in Its Turn very difficult and dangerous to pafs over. Yet this 

 Danger and Fatigue is fufficiently anfwered, by our being con- 

 dueled afterwards through the rich and delightful Plains of the 

 Mett'ij'iah, lying beyond Them to the Northward. Thele are 

 called by Abtdfeda \Bledeah Kiheerah, h^^^ j-^o-^j ! A Vafi Coun- 

 try, being near fifty Miles long and twenty broad, watered in 

 every Part by a Number of Springs and Rivulets. The many 

 Country Seats and \_Ma/}jareas ] Farms of the principal Inha- rhe Farms or 

 bitants oi Algiers, are taken out of Thefe Plains; it being chiefly /?.'' '"^^'^ 



I ^gr'tcola tncurvo terram molittts aratro, 



Exefa iiiveniet fcabra rubighie pila : 



yitit gr .ivtbiis raflris gaU'As pulfabh inanes, 



Grandhtque effoffis mirabitur ojfa fepulchris. Virg.Georg.I. I.494.&C. 



1 G'taz.aier Mazghannan fita ad littus maris, eft admodum popiilofa & mercatorcs Jucri ad- 

 didifTimi : plateae ejus elegantes j ubi adjacet [^i^S m.^vU J yibiilf. Ex tradiidt. V. Ci. 

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