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The 23rd, came to Gaffsa, the Capsa of Jugurtha, situated immediately in the narrow plain between the point of two mountains, a valley to the south . . . . . the mountains east and west, advantageous positions for a prince whose strength is horse.[253] The key of the Jereed, the hilly place where Marius halted, to the south the Jugis Aqua, a plentiful spring in two basins from one to four feet deep and thirty feet square, in the middle of the town,[254] another in the citadel,[255] the water, which is more than lukewarm, runs in a pretty considerable stream, and is drunk up in watering the plantations of date trees and gardens among them, on the west side of which Gaffsa is situated.
Gaffsa is built of clay, but is considerable and much better than Ferreanah. No antiquities.
The 24th to the 28th, stayed here correcting and perfecting my designs; the 29th, set out for Tozer.
On the left, or east, Jibbel Orbatt;[256] on the right Jibbel ben Younus to the Dowary, another mountain, and so on to the frontier of Algiers. Passed Garbata[257] about four miles; lay that night at a Dowar of Zowawas, Welled Seedy Abid.