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of it ; on the contrary, I do aver, in the face of thefe fantas- 

 tic prejudices, that I have ate the flefh of lions, that is, part 

 of three lions, in the tents of Welled Sidi Boogannim. The 

 firfl was a he-lion, lean, tough, fmelling violently of mufk, 

 and had the tafte which, I imagine, old horfe-flefli would 

 have. The fecond was a lionefs, which they faid had that 

 year been barren. She had a , confiderable quantity of fat 

 within her ; and, had it not been for the mufky fmell that 

 the flefh had, though in a lefTer degree than the former, 

 and for our foolifh prejudices againft it, the meat, when 

 broiled, would not have been very bad. The third was a 

 a lion's whelp, fix or feven months old ; it tailed, upon the 

 whole, the worft of the three. I confefs I have no defire 

 of being again ferved with fuch a morfel ; but the ArabSj 

 a hrutifli and ignorant folk, will, I fear, notwithftanding 

 the difbelief of the univeriity of Oxford, continue to eat lions 

 as long as they exift. 



From Hydra I paiTed to the ancient Tipafa *, another 

 Roman colony, going by the fame name to this day. Here 

 is a mod extenfive fcene of ruins, There is a large tem- 

 ple, and a four- faced triumphal arch of the Corinthian or- 

 der, in the very bell tafte ; both of which are now in the 

 collection of the King. 



I here crofled the river Myfkianah, which falls- into the 

 Bagrada, and continuing through one of the moll beautiful 

 and bell- cultivated countries in the world, I entered the 

 eaftern province of Algiers, now called Conftantina, ancient- 



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* Etol. Geog. lib. iv. p. 106, 



