Chap. 1.] ACCOUNT OF COTJKTEIES, ETC. 379 



ceeding in a westerly direction, there are forests filled with 

 wild beasts, peculiar to the soil of Africa, as far as the 

 river Anatis\ a distance of 485 miles, Lixos being distant 

 from it 205 miles. Agrippa says, that Lixos is distant from 

 the Straits of Gades 112 miles. After it we come to a 

 gulf which is called the Gulf of Saguti^, a town situate on 

 the Promontory of Mulelacha^, the rivers Subnr and Salat*, 

 and the port of Eutubis^, distant from Lixos 213 miles 

 We then come to the Promontory of the Sun^, the port of 

 Bisardir", the Gietulian Autololes, the river Cosenus^, the 

 nations of the Selatiti and the Masati, the river Masathat^, 

 and the river Darat'^, in which crocodiles are found. After 

 this we come to a large gulf, G16^^ miles in extent, which is 

 enclosed by a promontory of Mount Barce^', which runs 

 out in a westerly direction, and is called Surreutium''. 

 Next comes the river Salsus^^, beyond which lie the Ethio- 

 pian Perorsi, at the back of whom are the Pharusii'^, who 



^ Supposed by some geographers to be the same as tliat now called 

 the Ommirabili, or the Om-Rabya. This is also thouglit by some to have 

 been the same nver as is called by Pliny, in p. 381, by the name of 

 Asana ; but the distances do not agree. 



2 Supposed by Gossehn to be the present bay of Al-cazar, on the 

 African coast, m the Straits of Cadiz ; though Hardouin takes it to be 

 the koXtto? f^fiTToptKO'?, or " Gulf of Commerce," of Strabo and Ptolemy. 

 By first quoting from one, and then at a tangent from another, Pliny 

 involves this subject in almost inextricable confusion. 



3 Probably the place called Thymiaterion in the Periplus of TTanno. 



* The present Subu, and the river probably of Sallce, previously 

 mentioned. 



* The modem Mazagan, according to Gosselin. 



^ Cape Cantin, according to Gosseliji ; Cape Blanco, according to 

 Marcus. 7 Probably the Safi, Af^afi, or SafTee of the present day. 



8 The river Tensift, which runs close to the city of Morocco, in the 

 interior. ^ The river Mogador of the present day. 



^0 The modem river Sus, or Sous. 



" The learned Gosselin has aptly remarked, that this cannot be other 

 than an error, and that "ninety-six" is the correct reading, the Gulf of 

 Sainte-Croix being evidimtly the one here referred to. 



'2 Mount Barce seems to be here a name for the Atla.9, or Daran chain. 



^3 Supposed by Gosselin <o be the present Ca])e Ger. 



^* The river Assa, according to Gosselin. There is also a river Suae 

 placed here in the maps. 



'^ These two tribes probably dwelt between the modern Capes Ger 

 and Js'on. 



