From the land, and it has extensive farms, more than it needs, and its people have herds of horses, sheep, cattle, provisions, springs, fruits, legumes, and meats. Its farms yield wheat, barley, and millet. Its inhabitants are from the Berbers, and it has Bawal, Bardaj, Ghawarah, and Sardaqnah, and its farms. This city is also full of merchants and trade, and it is on a river with many springs, accessible on the surface of the earth, not deep. It is fresh and contains small fish, red and white. There is no fish of its kind in the inhabited lands, and the people of Masila are proud of it. The size of this fish is from a span downwards. Sometimes a large one is caught and taken to the fortress of Banu Hammad, which is 12 miles away. The city of the fortress is one of the largest cities in terms of its religious sites, most abundant in goodness, most extensive in wealth, most beautiful in palaces and dwellings, and most abundant in fruits and fertility. Its gourds are cheap, and its general produce is good and plentiful. It is situated on a high, difficult-to-climb mountain. Its summit is a plain of land from which the fortress and the city's houses are ruled. There is a black herb that grows quickly, and the people of the fortress are proud of it and boast of it. They drink it with water from the springs of Harran, and they claim that drinking a dirham of it is beneficial. A whole ostrich, if its drinker is not affected by any of these herbs, and it is famous there. It is said that someone drank it and the pain subsided quickly. Then he drank it three times throughout the year and did not feel any pain from it. This plant grows in the land of the fortress, and the herbs are from the city of Tlemcen to the city of Masila, from Tlemcen to the city of... [The text breaks off here, but the context suggests it continues to list locations or items].