8o Geographical Objervations in the Inland 'Parts 



•r^.Kubbah Leagues from Them to the N. E. is the ['-^'] Kubhah ' of Seedy 

 Habfliee. Hah/hce, built upon a rifing Ground, near the Banks of the IVed 

 el Ma'ilah. The Bent Solyman and the Welled Taan belong to 

 This Neighbourhood ; to the Southward of which are the Arahs 

 T''^ f f^', Jou-ehh, with a large Heap of Ruins. Ttolemf?, U/fara, from 

 jou-ebb, the Situation of It in the Neighbourhood oi^uzia, mav be very 



The IJssa- -^ •>> j 



RA. Exc. p. well fixed at This Place : as His Turaphilum, for the fame Rea- 



fon, will fall in with the Ruins at Shil-ellah. 

 The River Thrce Lcasucs to the Eaftward of the Kubbah, is the River 

 caitooia. Zagwan, well known to a Branch of the Cafloola. It hath It's 

 iS?*^ ^^' Fountains among the Welled Haloofe, who inhabit properly 



the mountainous Diftrift to the Southward, but fometimes 



wander as far as Jibbel Deer a. Before the Zagwan joyns the 



Zeitoune, It receiveth the Wed el Mailah. 

 The Plains of Lcaving the Cafloola, we enter upon the rich and extenfive 



Plains of Hamza, which, reaching as far as the Mountains of 

 The Arabs "fif/^annougah, are cultivated by Welled Dreefe, Miriam, Fair ah, 



Dreed, Maintenan, and other Bedoweens. Seedy Hamza, a 



Marab-butt of great Reputation, gave His Name to Thefe 



Plains ; whofe Tomb is vifited upon the weftermoft Borders of 



Them, not far from the high pointed {Hadjar) Rock of the 



Magrowa. 

 Wed Ad- The Wed Ad-oufe, gliding along the eaftern Divifion of Thefe 



Plains, receiveth feveral Rivulets : of which the two principal 

 Jibbel Dee- oucs arc from Jibbel Deera. Thefe unite at about a Miles Di- 

 The phaa- ftaucc ffom thcir Sources and form the Thaamah, the Thoe- 

 Phoebus. miKs pcrhaps of Ttolemj)', and upon the Neck of Land that ly- 

 BurohHam-Cth bctwecn Them, we have the Burgb Hamza with a Turki/h 

 ^^j'^ " £^" p, Garrifon of one Suffrah\ The Burgh is made out of the Ruins 

 iz. c. p. z6. of the antient Auzia, called by the Arabs [^V ^t- Sour Gujlan\ 

 or Sour Qn-The Walls of the Ant Hopes, a great Part whereof, fortified at 



proper Diftances with little fquare Turrets, is flill remaining. 



The whole feems to have been little more than fix Furlongs in 



I S.A», Fornix, concameratum opus & tale Sacellum. Gol. in Voce, from whence perhaps 

 the Cupola of the later ^rchiteBs. The Marab-butts are generally burled under one of thefe Build- 

 ings, which have frequently an Oratory annexed to Them ; and fometimes a dwelling Houfe, en- 

 dowed with certain Rents for the Maintenance of a Number o/Thul-by [^^aIL] who are to fpend 

 Their Time in reading and Devotion. I have often obferved, where there is an hiflitution of this 

 Kind, that then the Place, including the Kubhah, the Oratory &c. is called the Zvvovvah of fuch 

 or fuch a Marab-butt. 2 |0* The Common Name, among the Algeiines, for a Band or Company of 

 Turkifh Soldiers, confifling for the moft Part of twenty Perfons, i7icluding a Cook, Steward, and 

 Lieutenant : fo called, I prefume, from being fuch a Number or ^vfe, as for the Conveniency of 

 Eating, can jit about one [ijiLM Suffrah] Table - 



Circuit, 



