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Geographical Ohfervations in the Inland Country 



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Kair-wan, Kair-waH. a walled City and the fecond in this Kingdom 



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AuGusTi. for Trade and Number of Inhabitants, is fituated in a barren 

 p.27. A. Tab. Plain, eight Leagues to the Weftward of Sufa, and about the 

 fame Diftance to the S. W. of Herhla. There is, at half a Fur- 

 long's Diftance from the City, a capacious Pond and Ciftern, 

 built for the Reception of Rain Water : but the Pond, which 

 is the chief Provifion for their Cattle and ordinary Ufes, as 

 the other, the ElmawaheloiAbulfeda ', is for their own drink- 

 ing, being either dried up, or elfe beginning to putrify about the 

 middle of the Summer Seafon, occalioneth a Variety of Agues 

 and other Diftempers. 

 f/safiff' We have feveral Fragments of the antient Architedure at 

 this Place ; and the great Mofque, accounted to be the moil 

 magnificent as well as the moft facred in Barlary^ is fupport- 

 ed by an almoft incredible Number of Granate Pillars. The 

 Inhabitants told me (for a Chrijlian is not permitted to enter 

 the Mojques of the Mahometans) that there were no fewer 

 than five Hundred. Yet among the great Variety of Columns, 

 and other antient Materials employed in this large and beauti- 

 ful Structure, I could not be informed of one fingle Infcription ; 

 the Infcriptions likewife which I found in other Places of the 

 City, were either filled up with Cement, or elfe defaced by the 



I Incolae Urbis K<iJrw<iB bibiint aquam pluvialem qu£ hyemali tempore colligitur in pifci- 

 na magna difta Elmawahel J,a1».*J\ i. e. Cifterna. Abulf. ut fupra. 



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