In the Country of the We/Iern-Moors. is 



Yet perhaps it may be ftill urged, that P/i/ry and Ttole?njy Pi^^y f"""'^' 

 mention both the Maha and the Mulucha or Chyk?nathy 2ί(^Μ"ο^' of ^^^ 

 therefore they may be prefumed to be different Rivers. The ' " ''^ ^' 

 Maha, or Mahana 2i%Tliny calls it, was certainly well known 

 to Him ', from His defer ibing it to be a namgahle River: a Pro- 

 perty which no River within the Ciefarienfis can boaft of. The . 

 Tortus Magnus may be likewife fuppofed to have been better 

 known in the Time of P/i^?/,than when Mela lived ; becaufe there 

 was now a Roman Town built and a Colony^ fettled in that Place, 

 from whence the Geographers andHiilorians of HisAge might 

 receive what additional Difcoveries ihould be made concerning the 

 Nature and Situation of the neighbouring Country. But there 

 being no remarkable River within twenty Miles at leaft of the 

 Torttis Magnm, Tliny could not receive any new Informations 

 concerning the Pofition of a River which did not fubiift. All 

 the Notice therefore which he may be prefumed to have had 

 of the Mulucha, muft have been from fome preceding Autho- 

 rity; from that of Strabo, or Mela rather whom he always 

 copies. Tliny then finding that Mela'" placed the Mulucha near 

 the Torttts Magmas, at a great Diftance from his Mahana, 

 could by no means fufpe6t they were the fame; but relying 

 altogether upon His Veracity and Exadnefs, adopted the fame 

 Miftake, and thereby continued down to future Ages the fame 

 Pofition to the Mulucha, which he found it placed in by Mela. 



Ttolemy, befides the Authority of JVfi'/<?, had That fikewife Ρί«ι«"ψ /"'- 

 of Tliny in this particular Circumftance; and from hence itia-^wpiiny 

 might arife, that agreeable to thele Authors, the Lhylemath <>f ^» chyie- 

 (fuppofed to be the Mulucha) came to be laid down by him as ""^ ' 

 a different River, and at a great Diftance from the Maha to 

 the Eaftward; whilft the Molochath, agreeably as he thought 

 to the Authority of Strabo, was placed nearer the Λ/Λλ, and^|^|J"^° j 

 not Haifa Degree'' diftant from it to the Weft ward. And in- *j^^^ moIo- 

 deed, provided Ttalemy had taken no Notice at all of the 'Mal• 

 vay ( and I doubt whether this ParC of the Country ad-mits of 

 any two fuch contiguous Rivers) the Pofition he gives, ^er^ 

 to his Molochath, would have fuificiently anfwered to The 

 Boundary. 



I Exc. p.2i. Cap.2. E. 2 IbU. 3 E.u.p.iS.Cap. y.D. 4 FtoL• Geog. 1.4.Capvl. vi*. in 

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