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on each Side under an exxeeding high Precipice. At every 

 Winding, the Rock or Stratum, that originally went acrofs It 

 and thereby feparated one Valley from another, is cut into the 

 Fafhion of a Door Cafe, fix or feven Foot wide, giving there- 

 by the y^rahs an Occafion to call Them the [^Beeban] Gates > 

 whillt the Turks, in Confideration of Their Strength and Rug- 

 ged nefs, know Them by the additional Appellation of \T)ammer 

 Cappy] The Gates of Iron. Few Perfons pafs Them without 

 Horror , a handful of Men being able to difpute the Paffage 

 with a whole Army. The Rivulet of Salt Water, which glides 

 through This Valley, might pofTibly firft point out the Way, 

 which Art and Neceffity would afterwards improve. 



Two Leagues to the S. S. E. of the Beehan, is The [^ccahaTi-e Accaba, 

 ^-i^] Afcent, another dangerous Pafs, and the reverfe of the"' 

 Beehan. For here the Road lyeth upon a narrow Ridge, with 

 deep Valleys and Precipices on each Side ; where the leaft De- 

 viation from the beaten Path, muft expofe the Traveller to the 

 almoft inevitable Danger of His Life. The common Road 

 from Algiers to the Eaftward, (notwithftanding thefe Diffi- 

 culties,) lyeth over This Ridge and through the Beehan ; being 

 preferred to another, a little on the Right Hand, as being 

 wider, and to that of Wan-nougah in being more direct. 



Wan-nougah or IVan-nou-hah, a Part of Mount Atlas and^'^^*"'^-^/ 

 the Seat of the IVelkd Boohe'ide and Beleel, is a Knot of Moun-g^h. ' 

 tains lefs rugged, and much better watered, than thofe of the 

 BeniAbhefs. They lye to the S. W. of the Beehan, and hang 

 over the Plains of Hamza on the one Side, and over Thofe of 

 Mejana on the other. 



The Gurgoure a powerful Clan, are five Leagues to the Eaft- Gurgoure. 

 ward of the Beni Ahhefs , and border upon the River of the 

 Welled Ajehhy. Above Them are the Mefeltah and the Beni 

 Selim\ and then follow the Mountains oIKeeny, and Taffaat, 

 cultivated by Welled Kehhs and Shouke. The Rahamah, with Rahamah. 

 Their high pointed Mountain, are to the Weftward o^Taffaat ; 

 and in the like Situation we find the BeniWortelan, who have Beniwone- 

 Saltoure, a confiderable Dajhkrah of the Beni Ahhejs, to the 

 Northward. Two or three Leagues to the E, S. E. of the 

 Be?ii Wortelan, are the Bent Talah, of the fame Family with 

 Thofe of Mount Jurjura ; and at the like Diftance to the S. E. 

 is the Town oiZammorah, built over againft the Tomb oi Seedy zam-mor»h. 



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