In the Country of the Wefiern-Mooxs. 1 1 



and [^^^'*] Maloiiia or Μιύ-Ιοόϊα^ according to the Pronun- 

 ciation of the Moors, is a large and deep River, which empties 

 it lelf into the Mediterranean Sea, over againft the Bay of ^l- 

 meria m Spain, and lyes about fifty four Miles to the SW^W 

 of Cape Hone, and two hundred and forty from the Atlantic 

 Ocean. Small cruifing Velfels are admitted within it's Channel, 

 which by proper Care and Contrivance, might be made com- 

 modious for Veflels of greater Burthen, and as navigable as it 

 was heretofore. The Sources of This River, are a great Way 

 within the Sahara, at the Diftance of eight hundred Miles from 

 the Sea, according to Abulfeda ' ; and the Courfe of it, contrary 

 to that of moil other Rivers of this Country, lieth almoft the 

 whole Way in the fame Meridian. From which Circumftances, 

 the Mul -Ιοοϊα appears to be the moil confiderable River in Bar- 

 hary, and by far the fitteil for fuch a Boundary, as the antient 

 Geographers and Hiilorians have made it. 



But whether the Maha was diiFerent from the Mulucha,'rhe mu\m- 

 Molochath, and Chylemath : or, being one and the fame River, cha'h^J^.1^" 

 were confequently ufed for one and the fame Boundary in theSi /Zf^/- 

 old Geography, will admit of fome Difpute. The Boundary be-"''* 

 tween the Mauri and the Maffiefyli, or the Subjeds of Boc- 

 chus and Jugiirtha, is by Straho ' afcribed to the Molochath, 

 and by Salluft', Mela% and Tliny' to the Mulucha\ it is very 

 probable therefore that thefe were one and the fame River. And 

 the fame Situation that Tliny'' and Mela' give to their Mulw 

 cha, in placing it near the TortJi^s Magnus, is given by Ttole. 

 m/ to his Chylemath-, lb that the Mulucha, Molochath, and 

 Chylemath, appear to be the fame River. Whether the Maha 

 alfo be another Name for it, is the next Thing to be confidered. 



Now the Maha, notwithftanding the Largenefs and QyQ2XThe Maiva 

 Extent of it's Stream, doth not appear to have been known totc/Zl S^ 



Mulucha&c. 

 I In Μ.(/ΰ/«.ί inrtuit fluvius Segelmefa,^ cujus Scaturigo eft ab Aaftro Se^elmefe ad magnam 

 ab ea diftantiam, atque ibi in unum fluvium ambo coalefcunt qui in mare al Rum (fc. Medi- 

 terranemn) fe exoneiant ad orientem & auftrum Sebta ad diftantiam ter centnm & decern mil- 

 Jiariorum. Inter originem fluvii Scgelmefx & oftium ejus quo in mare dilabitur funt circiter 

 odogmta milliaria. Eh Said in Abulfed& Geogr. ex traducLV. O.J.Gagnier. 2 Exc. p.i.A. 

 ^^11 <7 ^^^^^ '°"°^ ^ fl'imine Mulucha, quod Jugunhs. Bocchique regnum disjungebat &c. Sal. 

 bell, yitgurth. Cantab. 1710. 5 97. p.471. Gatulorum magna pars & NHmid<t ad flumen ufque 

 Mulucbam lub Jugmtha erant; Mauris omnibus Rex Bocchus imperitabat. Jd. 5 22. p.292. 

 Ego flumen Mducham quod inter me & Micipfam fuit, non egrediar, neq^ie Jugurtham id in- 

 trare linam i5Oa7;« Orat. 7ίί.?.ιι8. P.J24. Ad Mauritania7n Numid<t tcucnv. proxu me //?#<- 

 mam Maun lunt. Id. 522. p. 291. Pauci ad Regcm Bocchum in Mauritaniam abicrant. Id. 

 1<56p.398. 4 Exf.p.iS.Cap.j. in fine, y Eat. p.2i.Cap.2. 6,7 £A<r.ut lupra. S Exc. 

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