Of the Eajiern Province. 1 1 ^ 



Mef-feelah, the frontier Town of This Province to the Weft- Mef-feeiah. 

 ward, is built upon the Southern Skirts of El Hiithnah ^ nine 

 Leagues to the S. S. W. of Seedy Embarak EJ-mati^ and fome- 

 thing lefs to the Weftward of Jowam el Mugrah ; fo that 

 ylhilfeda ' muft be miftaken in placing It only eighteen Miles 

 from Conftantina. It is a dirty Place, like moft of the Villages 

 of This Country, having It's Houfes built, either with Reeds 

 daubed over with Mud, or elfe with Tiles baked only in the 

 Sun. The ^Igerines had formerly at This Place a Garrifon of 

 three Suffrahs, changed at prefent into a fmall Body of Spahees, 

 who have little Duty upon Their Hands , and upon any In- 

 furreclion or Difturbance, (there being no Caftle to prote6l 

 Them) have nothing but Their Arms to truft to. The Air is 

 too cold at This, as well as at other Places upon the Skirts of 

 the Sahara, for the Production of Dates ; and therefore the 

 Gardens that furround It, are only furnifhed with Peach, Apri- 

 cot, and fuch fruit Trees, as are common to the more northern 

 Parts oi Barhary. MeJ-feelah ' denotes fuch a Situation as This, 

 which borders upon a running Water. 



Eight Leagues to the E. S. E. of MeJ-feelah , and a little to Ti-e puivs of 

 the S. W. o{Jo7i/am el Mugrah, is The \^Ain el ca^= Kell>\ Foun- 

 tain of the 'Dog. From whence we crofs the Nak-kar, (as They 

 call the RiYQ^r: Soiihillah near the Shott) and afterw'ards, at five 

 Leagues Diftance ftill farther to the Eaftward, the Bareekahy 

 and then enter into the Plains of that Name, which are culti- 

 vated, in the fame Method with El Huthnah, by the JVelled 

 Seedy Mahamet Ben Hadge. The Eaftern Parts of £"/ Huthnah 

 bound This Diftridt to the Northward ; and to the S. W. we 

 have the Les-haah, an Interchange of feveral little barren Le^.b^^h 

 Mountains and Valleys that border upon the Shott. 



Jihhel Suffian, a rugged Mountain inhabited by the Welled m^bei suf- 

 Toufef is lituated at three Leagues Diftance to the N. E. of j^'^jj^^ 

 the Bareekah, and to the S. S. W. of the Ras el Aioune. The ^ou^ef. 

 little Rivulet of Boo-ma-zoofe, defcends from This Mountain, 'r'^^ Booma- 



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and leaving the Bareekah three Leagues to the Weftward, 



lofeth Itfelf afterwards in The \_Midar j^"'] Miry Tlains of^^'^^^. b^"- 



Ben Toufef, to the Eaftward of the Shott. 



I AlK^em Billah Fathemita condidit Mefeela An. Heg. 31^. appellavitque earn Al mo- 

 hamnieAlah. Inter Cojlinam & Mefeelam oc^odecim Milliaria & mons continuus. Abulf. 

 ut fupra. 2 kIua^ (viz. Jlw fluxit aquaj locus torreniis feufiiiemis aqua. Vid. Got. Gg. &c. 

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