Chap. 2.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTEIES, ETC. 387 



Tucca\ situate ou the sea-shore and upon the river Amp- 

 saga. In the interior are the colony of Augusta, also called 

 Succabar", Tubusuptus^ the cities of Timici and Ticravie'* 

 the rivers SardabaP, Aves«, and Nabar^ the nation Sf the 

 Macm-ebi, the river Usar^ and the nation of the JN'ababes. 

 The river Ampsaga is distant from Csesarea 322' miles. The 

 length of the two Mauritanias is 1038, and their breadth 

 •iG7 miles, 



CHAP. 2. (3.)— NUMIDIA. 



At the river Ampsaga Xumidia begins, a coimtry rendered 

 iHustrious by tlie fame of i\rasinissa. By the Greeks this 

 region was called Metagonitis^'^ ; and the :^umidians received 

 the name of " A^omades " from their frequent changes of pas- 

 turage ; upon which occasions they were accustomed to carry ^^ 

 their ma^alia, or in other words, their houses, upon waggons. 



1 Destroyed, a<;cording to Hardouin, and probably by the incursions 

 Ot tlie sea. At the mouth of the Ampsaga (now called the W'ad-El-Kebh- 

 or Sufjunar and higher up the Wadi Koumel) there is situate a smaU 

 sea-port called Marsa Zeitoun. 



2 Near the present Mazuaa, according to Mannert. 



3 The modem 13urgh, accordmg to D'Anville and Mannert, but more 

 probably considerably to the east of that place. 



■• The modern El-Herba, according to Mannert. 



* Marcus suggests that tliis is the Clunalaphof Ptolemy, and probably 

 the modern Schellif. ^ 



« The same that is caUed Sayis by Ptolemy, who places Icosium on 

 its banks. 



7 Ey Mela called the Vabar. Marcus supposes it to be the same as 

 the modem Griffer. 



8 By Ptolemy caUed the Sisar ; the Ajebbi of modem geographers 

 which falls mto the Mechterranean, near tlu- city of Budja. ' 



^ Brotier says tliat this reading is incorrect, and that 222 is the pro- 

 per one, tliat being the true distance between the river Ampsaga or ^\^ad- 

 el-Kebu- and the city of Cscsarea, the modern Zershell. " 



10 It was not only Nuniidia that bore this name, but all Die northern 

 coast of Africa from the frontiers of the kingdom of Cartilage near IJipi)o 

 Keguis to the Colunms of Hercules. It was thus called from the (J reek 

 metaffonos, a "descendant" or "successor;" as tlie Carthaginians 

 estabhshed a number of small towns and villages on the coa^^t .whieli 

 were thus posterior in their origin to the large cities ah-eady founded 

 there. *^ 



" Hardouin says that the Moors in the interior still follow the same 

 usage, carrying their houses from pasture to pasture on wagi^c^ns. 



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