io6 Geographical Objervations in the Inland Country 



Meeiah or Near the Fraidah, five Leagues to the N. W. of Conftantina^ 



6rMiLEu. and eleven to the S. E. ot Jijel^ is the City Meeiah, the 

 7,r.Tab.Peut. Mik'vum or ilfi/^/4 of the Antients, built in the fame Manner 

 and in the like Situation with Jim-meelah. It is furrounded 

 with Gardens and plentifully ftocked with Fountains, one of 

 which, bubbling up in the Centre of the City, is immediately 

 received into a large fquare Bafon of Roman Worlmanfhip. 

 Conftantina isfupplyed chiefly from This Place with Herbs and 

 Fruit : Whofe Pomegranates particularly are of fo large a Size, 

 and have withal fo delicate a Mixture of the Tart and Sweet, 

 that They are in great Efteem all over the Kingdom. Leo ' and 

 Marmol bear Teftimony likewife to the Goodnefs of the Apples, 

 inafmuch as They have thought fit to derive the very Name 

 from That Fruit. 

 Deik or Me- Thtec Lcagucs above Meeiah to the S. S. W. are the Ruins 

 effah.^""" of T>eik or Mede'ik Bou-effah, formerly another antientCity of 

 the Romans, near the Confines of the Cirtefij. We have here, 

 befides a Number and Variety of little Cells, cut out of the 

 folid Rock with immenfe Labour and Expenfe, a Fountain of 

 excellent Water, called Ain elFouah, from the great Quantity 

 AineiFouah.of [F(9/Wj vy^'] Mather growing in the Neighbourhood. The 

 Ergh-ajh, the Swa-gah, d.nd Beniy^/h-oure, traverfe the Coun- 

 try in the Neighbourhood of Meeiah and Veik ; to the S. E. of 

 J'^^j.^^^^^"'^ whofe Encampments, is J'lbhelWoofgar, a long Chain of Moun- 

 fe/^'if 'b ^^i"Sj that reach to Conftantina. The Chitua were probably 

 the antient Inhabitants of the mofl Part of the Country I have 

 defcribed betwixt the Meridians ofBoujeiah and Meeiah. 



Thefe are the remarkable Places and Inhabitants of the moun- 

 tainous Diftrift of the Mauritania Sitifenfis to the Seaward. 

 SL^'^/7A^We are to defcend now into a more level Part of It, lying 

 ^'""^■^'"^near the Parallels of .S6'/6'f/' and Conftantina, where, returning 

 to the weftern Frontiers, we firft enter upon the Plains of 

 viamsofu^- Ma-janah, fhaded to the Northward by the Dra el Ham-mar^ 

 ^^"*^' and to the W. by the Mountains oilVannoiigah. Thefe Plains 

 are equally fertil and extenfive , but the many Pools of ftag- 

 nating Water (as the Name * may probably import) left here 

 in the rainy Seafon, and corrupting afterwards in the Springy 



I Maxima hie eft non fruftuiim modo, unde deduftum nomen putant, verum & carniuni 

 frugumque copia. J.Leo, p. 211. Mi/4 abonde en Fruit & particulierment en Pomes d' 

 ou il femble qu' elle a pris fon nom. L'Afn<\ue de Marmol. 1. 6. cap. 9. 2 I'iz. ab ^^^.i 

 Ajan, alteratti fuit aqua mntato fapore & calere. Corrupta fuit, fcituit &c. Gol, 



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