Of the Eajiern Province. \^^ 



Tuggurt the Capital, lyeth twelve Leagues to the S. W. o^Tum- Tuggmt. 

 marnah. This Place, according to the feveral Accounts, I have 

 had of It's Situation, is built in a Plain', without any River 

 running by It. For the Villages of Wad-reag are fupplyed, in 

 a particidar manner, with Water. They have, properly fpeak- 

 ing, neither Fountains nor Rivulets; but by digging Wells to 

 the Depth of a hundred and fometimes two hundred Fathom^ 

 the Inhabitants never fail of obtaining a plentiful Stream. And 

 to this purpofe, they dig through different Layers of Sand and 

 Gravel, 'till they come to a fleaky kind of Stone, like unto Slate, 

 which is known to lye immediately above The [^Bahar taht 

 el Erd ^J J^ ^=^ ^^•- ] Sea helow Ground, as They feem to 

 call the Abyfs. This is eafily broken through; and the Flux of 

 Water which foUoweth the Stroak, rifeth generally fo fuddenly 

 and in fuch Abundance, that the Perfon let down to perform 

 the Operation, hath fometimes been overtaken and fuftbcated 

 by It, though raifed up with the greateft Dexterity. 



Thirty Leagues to the S. W. by W. of Tuggurt is Efi-goufah, Eu-goufah. 

 the only Village of many, which fubfifted in the Time oi Leo^ 

 in this Situation. AhQ^En-gouJah, at five Leagues diftance to 

 the Weft ward, we have the noted and populous City of Wurglah, Wurgiah. 

 the Metropolis and, as far as I am informed, the moft diftant 

 Community on this Side the RiveriVi^^'r. Thefe ieveral Cities and ^ 

 Villages, together with thofe of the Beni Mezzah, are very Not. a. /^.z. 

 juftly compared by the Antients to fo many fruitful and verdent 

 Iflands, in the vaftExpanfe of a large Defert; and might for- 

 merly, I prefume, be included in theCountry oixheMtlanogcetuli. 



For It hath been already fuppofed ' that the Mountains ofthcr^^c^,,,,^^ ,/- 

 Ammer, were a Part of Ttolem/s Thrurcejus\ and that the In- Jf^^'^^^''' 

 habitants, from a Similitude in Name , might be likewife the 

 Tharujij. The Melanogatul't, the LyVians next in Order, are 

 placed by the fame Author to the Southward of the Tharufij, 

 between the Meridians and within the Parallels of the Moun- 

 tains Sagapola and Hu€rgla^% at the Latter of which, He 

 placeth the Fountains of the Bagrada, the Me-jerdah, as It is 

 now called. But as Thefe are well known to Ive within the cul- 



I Tegort vctuftiffimum oppidum a Numidis in monte quodam conditum, ad ciijus radices 



fluviiis prKterfluit. Diftat a mari Medicerraneo meridiem verfus quingentis milliaribus. 



7. Leo. p. 240. 2 GuargaLt aliquot fub fe habet CaftclU, pagos propemodum innumeros. 

 Hujus incolae, quonhm Agades regno adjacent, ditiflimi — omnes colore nigri. J. Leo. p.241. 

 3 Vid. p. j8. & 8^. 4 Vid. Not. p. 8(J. 



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