Of the Southern Province. 7p 



Southward of Medea. It is a finall Fortj built upon the Skirts 

 of the Sahara^ and was^ a few Years ago, one of the Frontier 

 Garrifons of the Akerines. The Welled Muktan, the Neieh- wciied 



^ '-' Muk:an. 



hours of the ^zeefe, lye to the Weftward of the Burgh, near the 

 "Dya or Titterie Geiple, a large Pond and Morafs formed by the The Dya or 

 Shelliff. Three Leagues to the E. N. E. of the Burgh is the oewie. 

 eaftern Extremity of the Titterie "Dopj, as the Turks call The Tkteric 

 [Had jar [j^'^'] Titterie'] Rock of Titterie-, a remarkable Ridge HadjarTit- 

 of Precipices, running parallel with the Plains of the Beni Ha- 

 leefa. They are four Leagues in Length, and, if poffible, are 

 even more rugged than yurjiira. Upon the Summit of Them, 

 there is a large Piece of level Ground, with only one narrow 

 Road leading up to It, where, for the greater Security, the 

 Welled Eifa have Their Granaries. Beyond the Welled Eija are weiiedEifa. 

 the Encampments of the W^elled In-anne, the principal Arahs 

 of the Diftrid of Titterie, properly fo called, which lyeth in ^^Jj'^'^ ^'i- 

 the Neighbourhood only of This Mountain. 



Trohus ' in His Obfervations upon Virgil, maketh Tityrus, ^^^"^cdTIrihlk 

 Name of one of the Shepherds, tofignify a He Goat in the Afri- 

 can Language. The fame I'nterpretation, among others, is 

 given to It by the Greek SchoUaft^ upon Theocritus. We like- 

 wife fee upon fome of the Etrufcan Medals, an Animal, not 

 unlike a Fawn or Kid, with [ 3 Q 3 -^ V 'f ] Tutere for the Le- 

 gend^', That particular Piece of Money being perhaps denomi- 

 nated, as Tecunia was from Tectis, from the Animal there ex- 

 hibited. But I was informed by the People of This Diftri6l, 

 that Titterie, or Itterie, was one of Their Words for Cold or 

 Bleak, a Circumftance indeed, which I often experienced, par- 

 ticularly in the Nights and Mornings, to be very applicable 

 to This Region, and may therefore, fo far, juftify the Etymo- 

 logy. 



To the Eaftward of the Titterie T)oJJjy are the Tiouwars of 

 the Adrowa, who are refrelhed by a Fountain of excellent Wa- Adrowa. 

 ter. Hard by It there is a Heap of Ruins, known by the famel'^J;;^"^''^,'"" 

 Name of Shil-ellah. A League and a half farther to the E. S. E. lum. £v.. 



o p. 12. a. 



are The \_^j^ MerjaJj] Meadows of the Welled Newy : and four weiied Ne- 



I Titjr'i & Melibdi perfonas de Theocrito fumpfit (VirgUlus) fed tamen ratio hxc nominum 

 eft: Hircus Ljbica. lingu^ Titjrus appellacur &c. Prob. Gramm. de Bucol. Carminis ratione. 

 Vid. & Pomponii Sabini Annot. in i. Eclogam. Virg. Bucol. 2 Ts? ap^sf, Tj-wfvf Myvtt, vZv Ji 

 ovoiMt SJiK eumhij KetTa lf/?fff(a» 7tJ XetfaiCTiip®'. AW^aif. oi'ojua xJp/« T/TO£^f. T/vk Ji ^am otj Sfi^tujof ti(, 

 i%i)uKicS-ni<. A}^.oi Ji ■ris-TPAFors, f75£?/ r^f ja-mfxt &c. Schol. in 3. Idyll. Theocr. 3 Vid. 

 Dempjl. Hetrur. Regal. Tab. LX. fig. 4. 



U z Leagues 



