50 History of Nature. [BooK V. 



CHAPTER II. 

 The Province Tingitania. 



THE Length of the Province Tingitania is 170 Miles. The 

 Nations therein are these : The Mauri, which in times past 

 was the principal, and of whom the Province took its Name: 

 and those most Writers have called Marusii. Being by War 

 weakened, they wasted to a few Families. Next to them 

 were the Massaesuli, but in like manner they were extin- 

 guished. Now are the Nations inhabited by the Getulae, 

 Bannurri, and the Autololes, the most powerful of all : a 

 part of whom were once the Vesuni : but being divided from 

 them, they became a Nation by themselves, and were turned 

 to the Ethiopians. This Province being full of Mountains 

 eastward, affordeth Elephants. In the Mountain Abila, 

 also, and in those which for their equal height they call 

 the Seven Brethren : these are joined to Abila, which looketh 

 over the arm of the Sea. From these beginneth the Coast of 

 the Inward Sea. The River Tamuda navigable, and for- 

 merly a Town. The River Laud, which also is able to 

 receive Vessels. The Town Rusardir, and the Harbour. 

 The navigable River Malvana. The Town Siga, over 

 against Malacha, situated in Hispania : the royal Seat of 

 Syphax, and now the other Mauritania. For a long time they 

 kept the names of the Kings, so that the furthest was called 

 Bogadiana: and likewise Bocchi, which now is Csesariensis. 

 Next to it is the Harbour for its space called Magnus, with a 

 Town of Roman Citizens. The River Muluca, which is the 

 limit of Bocchi and the Massaesuli. Quiza Xeriitana, a Town 

 of Strangers : Arsennaria, a Town of Latins, 3 Miles from the 

 Sea : Carcenna, a Colony of Augustus, the Second Legion : 

 Likewise another Colony of his, planted with the Pretorian 

 Cohort : Gunugi : and the Promontory of Apollo. And a 

 most famous Town there, Caesarea, usually in old time called 

 lol, the royal Seat of King Juba : endowed by Divus Clau- 

 dius with the Right of a Colony, by whose Appointment the 

 old Soldiers were there bestowed. A new Town, Tipasa, 



