Of the Southern Trovtnce. 87 



plexion than the Gietul'mns I have mentioned to the Northward 1 ^'^^ B^ni 



iVl C 2. 2.11 b 



and lying feparated from Them by a wide inhofpitable Defert, 

 without the leaft Traces of Dwellings, or even the Footfteps of 

 any living Creatures, may in all probability be the moft weftern 

 Branch of xhQ Melanogatuli , as in treating of Wurglah andMELANi'-^ 

 IVadrea^ will be further confidered. 



The Welled Ta-Gouhe , the Lerha and the Seid elGraaha^The kvxb^of 

 are th^Bedoweens of ThisDiftri6l. 



CHAP. VII. 



Geographical Ohfervat'ions upon the Sea-Coaft of that Part 

 of the Mauritania C^farienfis and Numidia, which 

 is called at prefent the Eafiern Province or the Province 

 of Conftantina. 



TH I s Province, lying betwixt the Meridians of the Rivers rhe gemYai 

 Booherak and Zaine, is nearly equal to the other two ; ?ht?lovhcl 

 being upwards of CCXXX Miles in Length, and more than a 

 Hundred in Breadth. The Tribute likewife collected by This 

 Viceroy, is much greater, than that of the other Two ; inaf- 

 much as the Titterie Bey brings only every Year into the Trea- 

 fury o'i Algiers about twelve thoufand Dollars, and the weftern 

 Bey, forty or fifty thoufand ; whereas there is paid in by the 

 Viceroy of this Province never lefs than eighty and fometimes 

 a hundred Thoufand. 



The Sea Coaft of this Province from the Booherak to Boujeiah, The sea coajt 

 and from thence almoft entirely to Bona, is mountainous and '^'""'^'""'"'•'* 

 rocky, anfwering very appofitely to the Title of \El Adwah 

 ' «;oc] The high or lofty, which v#^^e<^<« hath given It ; though 

 It may be obferved at the fame Time , that the Province of 

 Andalufm in Sfain cannot, as that Author affirmeth, be either 

 difcovered from hence, or from the moft weftern Part of this 

 Kingdom. 



I A Dallar of Algier, Tunis, &c. pajfeth ufually for thfee Shillings and four pence or Six pence i 

 4nd of the like Value are the Aflanee or current Dollars of the Levant. 2 Traftus ille conti- 

 nentis a cujus portubus cminus profpicitur al Andalos appellatur continens il Advah '■sjo-s^ 

 terra emincns ; atque hie tradus comprehcndit el Magreb el Awfat & el Magreb el Ak^-^ '■ 

 porro Afrikea ex adverfo opponitur Inlulse Sikilea & TerrxMagnae Francix fc- & Italia ^ led 

 inde non en:iinus profpicicur /iriMos, ^ulfeda, ut fupra. 



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