Excerpt from A Short Account of Algiers: Containing a Description of the Climate of That Country, of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants Lgiers is a countryfihich derives its name from its metropolis and extends four hundred and eighty miles in length from call to welt along the northerncoalt of Africa. Its utmofi breadth is three hundred and twenty miles, but at the dillance of an hundred miles from the fea-coali, that part of Africa becomes a barren deiert, almoflt utterly uninhabitable either by man or beall'. Giers' is fituated between thirty-two and thirty-feven de grees of north latitude, which correfponds toothat' of the Dnited States, from Virginia to Carolina, inclufive. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean fea on ihe fourth, by mount Atlas; on the ealt, by the country of Tunis and on the well, by the river Mulvia, Which feparates it from the empire of Morocco. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.