GAret the sixth Province of Fez, butting East, on the River Mulaye; West, * 1.1 on the River Nakor; on the North, on the Midland-Sea; and South, on the River Mullulo, and the Mountains close by Numidia, is divided into three Parts: The first compriseth the Cities and Plains; the second, * 1.2 the Mountains; and the third, the Wildernesses. The first containing the Cities, is accompted sixteen miles in Length, and forty in Breadth.
On the Mediterrane stand the Cities Tarforagello, Fetis, and Tarfoquirato, with the Mountain Alkudie; so call'd by the Arabians: but Marmol takes it to be Abyle, * 1.3 one of Hercules Pillars; at whose foot lies Cape Trident, or The Point of three Forkes, by Castaldus call'd, Cabo de tres Forcas, and by Oliverius, Cabo de tres Orcas, supposed to be the Metagonitis of Ptolomy, the Metagonium of Strabo, and Sestiana of the Antients. It shoots far into the Sea with a Point; from which East∣ward lie three small Islands in form of a Triangle, besides one great one nam'd Abusam, in the heighth of thirty Degrees, and twenty Minutes.
Melille, formerly Ryssadirum, or Ruisar, * 1.4 by the Inhabitants call'd Deirath Mi∣lila, having a convenient Haven in the Midland-Sea, was heretofore the Head-City of this Territory: In the time of the Goths strongly wall'd, and so flou∣rishing under the Mahumetans, that it contained above two thousand Houses. But in the Year Fourteen hundred and ninety seven, the Duke of Medina Sido∣nia won it, and at this day it is one of the Spaniards Principal Strengths in A∣frica, excellently Fortifi'd, and commanded by a Castle well provided of all Habiliments necessary either for Offence or Defence.
About six miles from Melilla, near Cape Trident, or Metagonites, lieth Casasa, * 1.5 by the Portuguese call'd, Cabo de Casasa; where formerly, because of the Conve∣niency