Of the Eaftern Province. 1 1 5* 



rablc Streams, which empty Themfelves into This Place from the 

 Northward. 



CrofTing the Boo-ma-zoofe^ overagainft Tuhnah^ we have aMuckatci 

 large Mountain of excellent Free-Stone, with a Number of^^^'*^^'' 

 fquare Blocks , ready prepared for the Builder , lying by It. 

 It is called T"/:;^' [^Muchat' [i^*'*] el Hadjar] ^l^arry\ thQ^rahs 

 having a Tradition that the Stones employed in the building of 

 Seieef (and without Doubt of Nic-kowfe, Jighah, and other 

 neighbouring Cities) were brought from This Place. 



Four Leagues to the Northward of the ^5^rr;/, is Boo- Qoo-mnggzx. 

 7nuggar\ a fruitful little Diftri6t, with fome Traces of antient 

 Buildings. Betwixt It and Ras el Aioune ^ is the Village of 

 Nic-kowfe or Ben-cow fe as the Ttirlis call It, where there is a Nic-kowfe. 

 Garrifon of one Suffrahy a mud-walled Rampart and three 

 Pieces of Cannon- The Inhabitants are chiefly Zwowiah^ un- 

 der the Proteftion of Seedy Laffa?t, Their tutelar Saint : out SeedyLaffim, 

 of the Revenues of whofe Sanftuary there are maintained two 

 hundred Thalehs. Nic-kowfe is fituated in a Plain with a 

 Circle of Mountains at a moderate Diftance from It. A Rivulet 

 glides by It to the W. but being impregnated with too many 

 of the nitrous Particles, which the Soil It paffeth over is 

 charged with, the Water is feldom made ufe of in the Offices 

 of the Table or Kitchin. We have the Traces here of a large 

 City, with the Remains, as ufual, of Pillars, broken Walls and 

 Cifterns. But at prefent the Nk-kowftans make Themfelves 

 famous for the Tombs, They pretend to have, of the Se^ven 

 Sleepers \ Whom They ftrenuoufly maintain to have been 

 Muffelmeen, and to have fl.ept at This Place. 



Half Way betwixt the RaselAioime and the Mountains ofAinAzeii. 

 Welled ^ly Ben Sa-houre ^ we have other Ruins and feveral 

 Troughs and Cifterns of Stone ; all of Them the Work of the An- 

 tients, and into which the plentiful Fountain oiAzell is con- 

 ducted. Three Leagues to the S. S. E. of the Ras el yimme „r „ a 

 are the Mountains of the Welled Sultan, who are fucceeded, in,^"^""^ 



' ' Welled 



a like mountainous TraCt, by the Welled Fathmah : and then by 



1 Viz. a jsLi fecult. 2 ^ Word like this, viz VIJD^ Bemuggarou we meet with in the 

 H. Scriptures; rendred In His or Their Dwellings. Job. 18. ip. Pf. jy. 16. Magdia. cuita 

 dida quail Magarla, quod Magar [IJi^] Punice Novam VilUm dicunt. Ifid. Orig. 1. ly. 

 Cap. 12. 5 The cojjimon Opinion is that They Slept in a Cavern of Mount Ochlon, near the Ctty 

 Epheius, from A.D. CCLUI. to A, D. CCCCVIII, viz. from the Decian Perfecution to the 

 Time of the younger Theodofius. v^V. Gregoire de Tours de gloria Martpum. C. j»j. Didion. 

 de Moreri in Foe. Dormans. 



Ffx the 



Fathmah, 



