66 Geographical Obfervations upon the Sea Coajl 



from Them the City is fupplyed with Provifions. Flax and ^l 

 Henna, Roots and Pot-herbs, Rice, Fruit and Grain of all Kinds, 

 are produced here to Perfection. Yet I am to obferve, that 

 only the Hadjoute, ( as They call the Weftermoft Part of It ) 

 belongs properly to this Province ; the reft, lying bounded by 

 the Rivers Ma-faffran and Budwowe, being claimed by the 

 Southern Province, which I am now to defcribe. 



C H A R V. 



Of that Tart of the Mauritania Caefarienfis, or of the 

 Kingdom of Algiers, 'which is called at prefent the 

 Southern Province, or the Province of Titterie. 



77. G>«f,w r-|-v jj[ J g Province, which lyeth bounded to the Eaftward by 

 ThisPrcrjmce. J^ thc River Booherak, is much inferiour to the Weftern in 

 Extent ; being fcarce fixty Miles either in Length or Breadth. 

 Neither is the Jurifdidion of the F^iceroj, as extenfive as His 

 Province. For the Superintendency of the Mettijiah, and of 

 the fertil Country near the Banks of the Tiffer, belong to par- 

 ticular Kaides, who are under the immediate Appointment and 

 Direction of the 7)ej/ oi Algiers. Neither is This Province, in 

 general, fo mountainous as the Weftern. For the Sea Coaft, 

 to the Breadth of five or fix Leagues, the Seat formerly of the 

 The Sea coafl anticnt MachuTebL is made up chiefly of rich champain Ground : 



formerly poj- . . ^ •' i a t 



fefcd hy the behind which indeed we have a Ranee of rugged Mountains, 



Machure- 



Bi.-Ex^.p.ii. that run, almoft in a direct Line, through a great Part of This 

 Province : but beyond Them, in the Neighbourhood of Me- 

 dea, the Titterie T)ofh, the If^ed Afhyre, and particularly at 



fndthetnid- }Jamza, the antient Territories, I prefume, of the Tulenfit and 



lajid Coujitry -^ . . 3 r ^ ./ 



by the Tu- Baniuri,v^Q have other extenfive Plains ; though none of Them 

 NiuRi,' are equal to Thofe of the Mettijiah. To the Southward again 

 of Thefe Plains, from Sour GuJIan to the Titterie T)oflj, the Coun- 

 try begins to be mountainous ; but from the Titterie 'Dofh, to- 

 wards the Burgh and the Frontiers of the Weftern Province, 

 Machu- there appeareth to be a more eafy and commodious Accefs in- 

 f * f^p^fr' to the Sahara. And in This Situation were the Habitations per- 



L AM Pal 1 } ■*- 



cHv^iV^.'ik h^ps of the Machures\ as fome of the Salampfti and Malchuhii 



might 



