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Geographical Ohfervations upon the Sea Coafl 



sikack, ward of the Harfi-goone. The Sik-ack is a rapid Stream five 

 Miles to the Northward oiTlem-fan, in the Way to Tachum- 

 hreet. One of the Fountains is lukewarm, and well ftored with 

 Fiih, from whence it has the Kame of \y^^^'\ e>6=, u4m el Ηοιιΐελ 



ifiTer, the -j-j^^ pountaw of Fipjes. The Iffer has It's Fountains, to the 

 SE, among the Mountains of the ^m-^wfi'-^/, a Tribe of ^/ri- 

 cans bordering upon the Sahara. Ahulfeda ' takes Notice of 

 It as a confiderable River; which, by the Situation, and Affi- 



AssARA. ^ nity in the Word, fliould be the Jj]a,ra of Ttolemy, and the 



er isARis. Ifarh perhaps of the Anonvmom Geographer. All thefe Branch- 



E.vf. p.go. B. -' ^ ^ -^ Λ r-i Λ r -Ti- 



es unite at a fmall Diftance from the Sea, and form a River as 



broad as the Ifis, where It paiTeth by Oxford. 

 Tack-um- jf ti-jgj^ ^e compare the Places and Rivers, I have juft now 



breet and ^ „ •ιι i i τ> • 



Tatna^^/. dcfcHbed, with the old Geography; mtTafna will be the Ri- 



SiGA Civi- ^ -;__,,, 1 /-.• r 1 XT 



tas & Flu- ver S'lga of Ttolemy, and Tackum-hreet the City ot that Name. 

 9I c '"'■^' Hunneine, if it be not rather the Tortus Ccecilt of the Itinerary^ 

 gyp.saria. ^•|ι ^g likewife His Gypfaria\ for All Thefe Places are fituated 

 betwixt His Great Tromontory and the River Affara. Tliny 

 agrees with Ttolemy in placing Siga, to the Eaftward of the 

 Makana, in the Mauritania Cafarienfis ; but it will be diffi- 

 cult to account for His fixing It at the fame Time over againft 

 fi^iTbyk- Malncha, the Malaga^ as It is now called, in Sfain. For This 

 ""Ιΐηβ mh- Cityilying feventy Leagues to the W.N. W. only oi Tackum-hreet, 

 cha.^Exr. p. cannot have fuch an oppofte Situation. Moreover, if «Si^^ fliould 

 be in the fame Meridian with Malaga, (for fo I conjeobure 

 Pliny's ex adverfo will be generally interpreted ) the Tingita- 

 nia, fliort as He hath already made It, would, upon this Sup- 

 pofition, be much more contraded ; and the Mahana or Mal- 

 'va, the eaftern Boundary of It, could not be twenty five Leagues 

 difliant from the Atlantic Ocean. The Contrapofition therefore 

 mentioned by Tliny, muft have fome other Conftruolion put up- 

 on It, as I ftiall have Occafion to obferve in another Place. 

 Siga at fame Howevcr, that Siga was fituated in This Pofition, at fome Di- 

 '^^ Maiv^a.^ ilauce from the Maha, befides the Authority of the Anony- 

 p.zy. *F.A. ;;2o//^ Geographer, wehaveThat likewife of the/zi/zir^r;/; par- 

 ticularly where Siga is placed twenty feven Miles to the Wefl:- 

 ward of the Flumen Salfum, or in the very fame Situation, 

 that Tackum-hreet hath,with Refpeol to the Wed-el-Mailah. If 

 This River then be the Flumen Salfum of the Antients, as will 



I Ε monte Ttjfer [,/u»^] fcaturit fl. ijfer in iftis partibus Celebris. Abiilf. ut fupra. 



not 



