2o3 Geographical Obfer nations in the Inland Country 



Ferre-anah. It is recorded likewife that Jugurtha \ after He 

 was defeated by MetelluSy fled to the Defert, and from thence 

 directed His Fhght (all the Way as it may be prefumed to 

 the Eaftvvard) to Thala. For had Thala been placed in the 

 weftern Part of the Deferts of Numidia, Jugurtha\ as it is 

 related in another Place, would not have had that exceeding 

 long Journey, through a Succeflion of Deferts, to the G^tnli ; 

 inafmuch as Their Country lay immediately behind the Mau- 

 ritania. Salliiji acquainteth us further that the neareft River 

 to Thala was at fifty Miles Diftance ', and that Metellus, in 

 His Purfuit oi Jugurtha , took in there a Provifion of Water 

 for His Journey over the interjacent Defert. Now whether 

 (according to the Situation of the late Field of Battle ^tCirta 

 or F'acca,) Metellus directed His March to Thala by Tipafa 

 or Sufetula, (for an Army cannot pafs conveniently through 

 Caffareen, by Reafon of feveral impenetrable Mountains and 

 narrow Tiefilees) we have either the Wed el Hataah, or elfe the 

 River of Spaitla, which very well agreeth with this Geogra- 

 phical Circumflance. Whereas had Thala been fituated in the 

 Sahara, (to the Weftward o^ Numidia,) there would have been 

 no Neceffity for making this Provilion of Water, inafmuch as, 

 in none of thofe Parts of GastuUa, there is any Intermiflion of 

 Fountains or Rivulets, for half that Diftance. Neither indeed 

 could Thala be fuppofed to have been a City of the Beni Mezzahy 

 or of the Country of IVadreag, inafmuch as the neareft River 

 to any of thofe Places, is at much more than fifty Miles Di- 

 ftance; befides the Want there will ftill be of other Geogra- 

 phical Circumftances, which correfpond exaftly with Ferre-anah. 

 Ferre-anah differs very little in Sound from Feraditana, of 

 ^^- which Name there were two Sees in the Middle Age. Though 

 it may be further obferved, that what is related of the Situa- 

 tion of Telepte, agrees likewife with this Place. And as Thala 

 (I prefume) is not mentioned in Hiftory later than by Tacitus^ y 

 {{or Florus^ feems tofpeak of It as in the Time of Metellus,) 



I Ea fuga Jugurtha impenfius modo rebus fuis diffidens, cum perfugis & parte cquitatus 

 in folitudines , dein yM^iw pervenit. Id. ^.7%. 2 Jugurtha poftquam, amifTa Thala, 

 nihil fatis firmum contra Metellum putat, per magnas folitudines, cum paucis profeiSus, per- 

 venit ad Gxtulos. Id. 5* 82. 3 Inter Thalam flumenque proxumum, in fpatio millium 

 quinquaginta, loca arida atque vafta efle cognoverat {Metellus) igitur omnia jumenta farcinis 

 levari jubet , nifi frumento dierum decem : ceterum utres modo & alia aquas idonea 

 portari &c. 5.78. 4 Prasfidium, cui 7"/;4/<t nomen. 7<i(«r. Annal. 1. 3. c. 31. j Thalam, 

 gravem armis, Thefamoque regis, dsx'i^mx {Metellus). L. Flor, 1,3. cap. i. 



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