Of the Eaftern Trovince. 107 



occafion a Variety of Agues and fuch like Diftempers, as are 

 common to other Places in the like Situation. We have feve- 

 ral Heaps of Ruins difperfed over thefe Plains ; out of whofe 

 Materials, the Turks have lately built a [^Burgh'] Fort, where 

 They hav e a Garrifon to watch the Motions of the Bern yib-hefs^ 

 and Their Tributary Kabyles and Arahs. 



The Country of the Sud-ratah borders upon the Plains of Su'^-r^^ah. 

 Majanah to the Eaft, and hath to the Northward the Moun- 

 tains of Zam-morah. It is not quite fo level and fertil as the 

 Plains to the Weftward, being chiefly remarkable for the 

 Sanduary of Seedy Emharak Ef-mati, a Marah-hiitt of the firft Sl^^nan: 

 Reputation. This Place, which we may have fometimes Oc- 

 cafion to fpeak of, lyeth three Leagues to the E. S. E. of the 

 Burgh Majanah, and feven to the W. of Seteef. The *S^- m^lc'^hu- ^' 

 lampjij and Malchuhij, taken Notice of in the Southern Pro- Wl'-Q^^'vit 

 vince, may not only have reached thus far to the Eaft ward, but '^' ^^' 

 have fpread Themfelves likewife as far as Mefeelah and the 

 Plains oi El Huthnah to the South. 



ThQAm?ner, fucceed the Sud-ratah, fpreading Themfelves Ammer. 

 along the Banks of the Kuhher At-teah and Boojellam, a great 

 Way beyond Seteef. They are a powerful, though infamous 

 Tribe, proftituting in a very open Manner Their Wives and 

 Daughters. 



We have feveral Ruins in this Diftrict, but none worth taking seteef , The 

 Notice of, except thofe of Seteef, the Sitipha or Sit i/z of the col'^e J^c. p. 

 Antients, and the Metropolis of this Part of Mauritania. This t'iV?'?-^^^'^- 

 City , which I conjedure may be a League in Circuit, hath p.og;^;^^/^: 

 been built upon a rifing Ground, that faceth the South; but^'^^" ^' 

 the Arahs have been fo very fevere to It, that there is fcarce 

 one Fragment left us of either Wall, Pillar, or Ciftern of the 

 Romans: the few remaining Stru(3:ures , being obvioufly the 

 Work of the later Inhabitants. The Fountains in the Middle 

 of the City are equally delightful and convenient ; and without 

 Doubt, gave formerly occafion to feveral ingenious and ufeful 

 Contrivances in the Diftribution of the Water. I found here the 

 two following Infcriptions ; whereof the Latter is infcribed in 

 Half-Foot Letters ; and, provided It had been perfed:, might 

 have been of fome Confequence. 



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