12 " Geographical Ohjervatms 



Straho and Mela\ at leaft they do not take notice of it under 

 that Name. And fuch of the old Geographers' who Uved after 

 Tliny and Ttolemy and fpeak of the Maha, are altogether filent 

 about the Mulucha. There muft then be fonie great Error or 

 Oniiflion in the old Geography, with Refpea to thefe Rivers, 

 For if the Maha and Mulucha are different, then the moil con- 

 fiderable of them, (which doth not feem probable) muft have 

 been entirely forgotten and omitted. But if the Error iliould 

 lye, as it feems moft reafonable to think, in miftaking one Name 

 for the other: or, if what the earlier Ages called Mulucha, 

 (or perhaps Muluh-ha, as the antient Greeks and Romans pro- 

 nounced it ) was afterwards changed or foftened into Maha, 

 Malua or M*\v<t, as they became more converfant with the 

 Moorifi Idioms and Terminations •, then the Maha, which we 

 now find to bound the Two Mauritanice, will be the fame Ri- 

 ver with the Mulucha, that bounded formerly the Moors and 

 Numidians, 

 No Alteration And ittdced, by what we can collea from Hiftory, there does 

 ZuJanTofnot feem to be much Reafon for fuppofmg any Alteration to 

 wMaiTrki-have been ever made in the Limits between thefe Provinces; 

 ''"• but that the fame, which were in the Time oiBocchus and Jti- 



gurtha, were kept entire and without any Alteration, through 

 the feveral Succeifions of the Numidian Kings ' and Roman 

 Trcefe^is, till the Reign of Auguflus. 



We find that Numidia was a Roman Province ' in the Times 

 of Jul. Ccejar and Auguflus : but Bogud and Bocchis, fuccef- 

 five Kings οί Mauritania, being Friends to thofe Emperours", 

 muft be fuppofed to have kept their Kingdoms entire, without 

 any Diminution or Augmentation, fo far as appears from Hi- 

 ftory. Τ)ίοη' acquaints us, that Auguflus gave the Younger 

 Juha Egypt and his Father's Kingdom; and confequently. His 

 Territories extended to the Mulucha, the oldWeftern Bounda- 



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