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although it was in the winter season that he visited them. 

 We also learn from the same source that the people who 

 inhabit the adjoining forests, whicli are full of all kinds of 

 elephants, wild beasts, and serpents, have the name of Ca- 

 narii ; from the circumstance that they partake of their food 

 in common with the canine race, and share with it the 

 entrails of wild beasts. 



It is a well-known fact, that adjoining to these localities 

 is a nation of Ethiopians, which bears the name of Perorsi. 

 Juba, the father of Ptolemy, who was the first king^ wlio 

 reigned over both the ]Mauritanias,and who has been rendered 

 even more famous by the brilliancy of his learning than by 

 his kingly rank, has given us similar information relative to 

 Mount Atlas, and states that a certain herb grows there, 

 which has received the name of ' euphorbia'^ from tliat of his 

 physician, who was the first to discover it. Juba extols with 

 wondrous praises the milky juice of this plant as tending to 

 improve the sight, and acting as a specific against the bites 

 of serpents and all kinds of poison ; and to this subject alone 

 he has devoted an entu-e book. Thus much, if indeed not 

 more than enough, about Mount Atlas. 



(2.) The province of Tingitana is 170 miles iii leugth'. 

 Of the nations in this province the principal one was for- 

 merly that of the Mauri'*, who have given to it the name of 

 Mauritania, and have been by many writers called the 

 Maurusii^. This nation has been greatly weakened by the 

 disasters of war, and is now dwindled down to a few fami- 

 lies only^. Next to the Mauri was formerly the nation of 



^ Bocchu9 however, the kinsman of Maesinissa, had previously for 

 some time reigned over both the Mauritanias, couaifiting of Mauritania 

 Tuigitana and Maui'itania Cajf»aEiana. 



2 See B. XXV. c. 7. 12, and B. xxvi. c. 8. 



3 Extending from the sea to the river Moluga, now called the Molucha 

 and Moloeliath, or Malva and Malvana. 



* From whom the Moors of the present day take their name. IVfarrus 

 observes liere, that tliough Phny di.slinguishes the Mauri from the GivtuU, 

 they essctitiiilly belonged to the same raee and sjioke tlie same hmguage, 

 the so-ealli'd I>erber, and its diak-ets, the SeheUou and tlie 8i-lu)viah. 



* ' Maurusii' was the On-ek name, ' ^hiuri' l\w Latin, for this peo])le. 

 Mareus suggests tliat Mauri was a synonym only for the Greek word 

 nomades, ' wanderers,' 



* As Mareus observes, IHiny is here greatly in error. On the inroads of 

 Paulinus, the Mauri had retreated uito the interior and taken refuge in 



