JIBBEL or GEABEL AUREX, the Mons Auratus of the middle age, an assemblage of many very rocky mountains in Africa, in the kingdom of Algiers. Here Mr Brute met with a race of people much fairer in the complexion than any of the nations to the southward of Britain: their hair was red, and their eyes blue: they maintain maintain their independence, and are of a savage disposition, so that our traveller found it difficult to approach them with safety. They are called Neardin; and each of them has a Greek cross in the middle between the eyes, marked with antimony. They are divided into tribes, but, unlike the other Arabs, have huts in the mountains built of mud and straw; and are, by our author, supposed to be a remnant of the Vandals. He even thinks that they may be descended from the remainder of an army of Vandals mentioned by Procopius, which was defeated among these mountains. They live in perpetual war with the Moors, and boast that their ancestors were Christians. They pay no taxes.