ij. Geographical Obfer vat ions 



bourhood of the Tortm Magnm where we are direaed to look 

 for the Mulucha ; yet provided we ihould grant fuch a River 

 near this Place which might be fit for a Boundary, we are ftill 

 to fuppofe, that neither the Moors nor Numidians were to vio- 

 late and tranfgrefs it. But Siraho \ Tliny \ and Solinm ' aflure us, 

 that Siga, which we ihall find to lye forty Miles at leaft from 

 the Great Tort (or the fuppofed Pofition of the Mulucha) to 

 the Weftward, was one of the Royal Cities of the Numidian 

 Kings ; and Tliny more particularly, by reftoring only what 

 may be prefumed to be the true pointing of the Text% makes 

 it belong to the Ciefarienfts : it muft therefore be probable, ei- 

 ther that one Prince Ihould have a large Extent of Country 

 and a Royal City within the Territories of another, or elfe that 

 Mela was not fufficiently acquainted with the Situation of the 

 Mulucha, which, from this Circumftance, ought to lye to the 

 Weftward of Siga^ or in the Pofition of the Maka. 

 r^.Maunta- Mela likewife will furniih us with another Argument for 

 enfis^r/i removing \ί\% Mulucha, to the Weftward of the Tortm Magnm 

 iTA%£Tu-and Siga, as far as the Maha\ and that therefore the Mauri- 

 SViiOr™!" tania Ccefarienfis was of the fame Extent with the antient Nu- 

 midia. He tells us', that Ccef area was f laced nearly in the 

 Middle of the Coaft of Kumidia\ which Province he bounds 

 with the Rivers ^mpfaga and Mulucha. And agreeably to 

 this Geographical Circumftance, I find by Obfervation, that 

 Sherfiell, as defarea is called at prefent, is placed as near as 

 poiTible in the JVIidft of the Coaft of the Ciefarienfts, at about 

 two hundred Miles Diftance from either the ^mpfaga, or the 

 Maka. If then Mela's Authority in this Particular is to di- 

 rect us, and we are to attend to the refpedlive Diftances of thefe 

 Boundaries from defarea', the Mulucha, by being made equi- 

 diftant with the Ampfaga from it, but in a Weftern Direolion, 

 will fall in exaiHy with our Mullooia, or Maka. Whereas, in 

 looking for the Mulucha at, or near the Tortm Magnus, the 

 Space that is required to lye between the Mulucha and Cafa- 

 rea to make up this fuppofed Equality, will fall fo ihort of it, 

 as fcarce to amount to the Half of what it Ihould be. 



. 1 Exc. p.(?. D. 2 Exc. p.2i. E. 3 Exc. p.23. Cap.zf. 4 Slga. oppidum ex adverfo Μλ- 

 Uchs, in fjijpania fitae, S)phacis regia,alterius jam MauritanU, (namque diu rcgum nomina gb- 

 anuere, ut BoguaunA appellaretur extjnaa, itemque BQuhi ) qu» nunc Qtfarienfis. 5 Ex(. 

 p.i8. Cap.i. E. 



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