of the Southern Province. 75- 



agree, in being well watered, and in having all around Them 

 very fruitful Gardens and Plantations. A Branch of an adjacent 

 Rivulet may be conducted through every Houfe and Garden at 

 Bleeda ; whilft the feveral Conduits and Aqueducts that fupply 

 Medea with Water, (fome of which appear to have been the 

 Work of the Romans) are capable of being made equally com- 

 modious. Both of Thefe Cities lye over againft the Mouth of 

 the Ma-Sajjran\ viz. Bleeda at five Leagues Diftance under 

 the Shade of Mount Atlas \ and Medea three Leagues beyond 

 It, on the other Side of This Mountain. Bleeda therefore and 

 Medea lying thus nearly in the fame Meridian, Their refpe- 

 6tive Situations with Regard to the Ham-mam Mereega, the 

 Aquce CaTtdce Colonia of the Antients, together with the little 

 Alteration in Their Names, may induce us to take the one for 

 the Bida Colonia, the other for the Lamida of Ttolemj. The 

 MaJmnetan Hiftorians indeed, whom Mar7noV feems to fol- 

 low, are willing to have Medea of Their own Extraction, and 

 to be named after Their Kaleef el Mahadi : and Marmot ob- 

 ferveth further, that, before El Mahadis Time, It was called 

 Elfara, a Name not very different from UJJara, another of 

 Ttolemfs Cities in the Neighbourhood of Lamida. But Uffa- 

 ra feems to claim a Place at the Ruins of Ain Athreede^ a few 

 Leagues to the Weftward. Medea hath had undoubtedly a 

 Roman Foundation, and at moft, could have been only reftored 

 by El Mahadi. 



There is ftill remaining at Medea the Fountain taken Notice The vountam 

 of by Marmot^ \ but I could not difcover any of the Letters, Marmoi. ^ 

 which He read and tranfcribed upon the Spot. Leo feems to 

 have intirely omitted both This City and Bleeda, which, in His 

 Time, mult have made a fuperiour Figure to Mazouna, El 

 Mafcar and other Cities He hath thought fit to defcribe. The 

 Account indeed He hath left us o^ Medna ' the Medua^ oiMar- 



I Mchadie eft une ancienne ville baftie per Ics Romaines en une grande plaine, au deffus 

 d'une haute montagne, qui eft a quinze lieiies d'y^ger du Cofte du Midi au dedans du pais. 

 ElJe a eftc autrefois fort peuplee & fut detruitc par un Calife fchifmatique qui y baftit de- 

 puis un Cliafteau nomme de fon nom Moahed'm, dont la vilie depuis s' eft appellee Me he die : 

 car elle fe nomma autrefois Alfara. C eftoit autrefois une colonic Roniiiine, comme il paroift 

 aux antiquites & aux Infcriptions qui fc trouvent dans ccs ruines. Il y a une vieille fontaine 

 de Marbre ou font ecrites ces Letters. 



D. 

 D. D. L. S. V. L'Afrique dc Marmoi, l.j. cap.jj. 



2 Vid. Not. ut fupra. 3 Medna. non procul i Numid'u terminis extrudum, diftat i mari 

 Mediterranco milliaria fere 180, in planitie quadam ama;niffinia, maximeque frugifera pofita 

 eft, fluminibus hortifque fpatiofiffimis cingitur. Huic oppido praefuerunt quidam Tenez. Prin- 

 cipcSj delude Barbarojftt &c. J. Leo p. 203. 4 Medtu grande Ville & fort ancienne, baftie 



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