Of Algiers in general. 9 



I have met with nothing in the old Geography that aQ- Ue Dij-agrec 

 termines the Bounds and Extent of GietuUa ; but the Mauri- "ΐΤοΐϊ7„7 

 taniie and u\q NumidiaTropria in Conjundion with yijVica areJIJ.^''•^'''" 

 particularly marked out and circumfcribed ; though, if we areto 

 bound Them to the Southward ' with the Mountains οι Atlas and 

 t\\Q Sahara, thefeveralDiftances will not always anfwer to later 

 Obfervations. Thus Tiiny, who is followed herein hyMartianus, 

 maketh the Breadth of the Manritanice to be four hundred and 

 fixty feven Miles \ But This will be too much even for the Tin- 

 gitania, where indeed the correfponding Part of Mount At- 

 las' lyeth confiderably to the Southward ; and more than three 

 hundred Miles beyond the utmoft Extent of any Part of the 

 Ciefarienjis\ The two hundred Miles, which the fame Author 

 lays down for the Breadth οϊ Numtdia^ is nearer the Truth, 

 though twenty Leagues more than I have found it. Nor have 

 the Antients faid any thing , more to be relied upon, of the par. 

 ticular Length either of the Mauritania Ctefarienfts, or of the 

 Numidia Tropria. Tliny giveth us an hundred and feventy Miles, 

 which are too few, for the Tingitania'\ and eight hundred and 

 fixty nine {Martianus €\φΧ. hundred and feventy three which 

 are too many, for the Cafarienjis' \ but isfilent as to the par- 

 ticular Length of Numidia exclufive of Africa. The Iti- 

 nerary^ maketh the Coaft from the Tortus Oecili (which we 

 are to look for near the Great 'Promontory or Cape Hone as it 

 is now called) to Taharca, to be near athoufand Miles ; a greater 

 Error than that of Sanfon?> : and Ttolemy '% who placeth the 

 Ciefarienfis between the Maha and Ampfaga (or Great River,) 

 I e. from Long. ii\ lo', toa6°. is', extendeth that Province 

 alone, (by allowing, as above, forty eight Miles and an half 

 to a Degree,) upwards of feven hundred Miles ; a Miftake ftill 

 greater than that in the Itinerary. 



Neither muft we omit another Error of This Author in placing ρ^^,^^^ ^.^ 

 His Great Tromontory in N. Lat. i,f. and the Ampfaga in 31". f;^"^.J\/;g 

 4^'. and fo in Proportion of the interjacent Places; whereby this '•>''^''-'/• 

 Part of the Coaft is laid down nearly in an E. S. E. Diredtion. 

 Whereas in Sailing from the Mullooia to Nakkos, we are to keep 

 almoft a N. E. Courfe ; after which, to the Ras Acconnatter, 



I Vid. Not. 4. p. 8. 2 Exc. p. 21. Cap. 2.E. p. 30.D. 3 Viz. i Ting'i, cujus Lat.3 j°. 25'. 

 ad Atlantem majorem, cujus Lat. 2(5°. 30'. Fio/.Geogr.l.4. Cap.i. 4Vid. 5 2. p. 4. f E-xc. 

 p.22. B. 6£Arf. p.2i.Cap.2,C. 7 £v<r. p.30. D. 8 £.v<:. p. 21, Cap.2. E. ρ Eve. p.2y, 

 10 Exc. p.p. B. p. lo. C. 



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