writers on the subject, assigns to it above 600 miles from west to east, and 180 from the northern shore to the Country of Dates, or Blaid el Jerid. The regency is divided into four provinces,-Algiers, Constantina, Titteri, and Mascara, or Tlemsan; the first being governed by the dey in person, while the others are committed to the administration of certain beys, his lieutenants. The territory of Algiers, with the exception of the parts bordering on the Desert, is less sandy and more fertile than that of Tunis. Desfontaines remarks, in his Flora Atlantica, that he found the climate more temperate, the mountains higher and more numerous, the rains more abundant, the springs and streams more frequent, the vegetation more active and diversified. This improvement in point of atmospherical properties, and the fruitfulness which usually attends them, may be ascribed to the great elevation of the ridge that intersects this part of the African continent; the summits of which, frequently covered with snow, arrest the progress of the clouds and condense them into rain. 66 The city, which gives its name to the whole kingdom, rises in the form of an amphitheatre at the extremity of a fortified anchoring-ground. The tops of the houses, says Joseph Pitts, in his simple manner, are all over white, being flat and covered with lime and sand, as floors. The upper part of the town is not so broad as the lower part, and, therefore, at sea it looks just like the top-sail of a ship. It is a very strong place, and well fortified with castles and guns. There are seven castles without the walls, and two tiers of guns in most of them. But in the greatest castle, which is on the mole * ·re are thre›pire of jurs or mý sary length, ear y Logʻ by being what to the sou*. wipch encompasses ༢༽ ཆ and shot. 2 1 these t 15, 1st Roals. is tax 1 om tl - seashore, a e city, and represents the vall town, together with t port. the mole, and cervene ne rine deinces. Perhaps the a, Dance of this singular place, when viewed from the sea, is stil more striking The white build s 32118, otsive to 'races nave an imposing effect, we the I UP FOR country-mansions scattered 65r a ecel 01's, aud gioves of olive, eltron, an I Lanana tres, »Pya peaceful and rural landscape very opposic character to that of a mat of ; Pax 8. B... *** extremely narray coas nacan scarcely w ing is adopt. r shade from t 'on in case di c Pers suffered sex or eave, and r Che sun, an! by one of The path e si, the |