1^6 Geographical Ohfervations in the Inland Country &c. 



tivated Parts of Ntimidia, at fome Diftance from the Sahara^ 

 the Country of the MelanogietuU, from This Chxumftance, will 

 only fall in with the Proper Gietulia, and confequently, the Tha- 

 rufij can be no other, than the moil fouthern Inhabitants of the 

 Tell, or of the Mountains of ^tlas. But as this cannot be ad- 

 mitted, we are to argue from the general Tenour of Ttolemfs 

 Tables, concerning the particular Situation of thefe Nations. 

 Gatuiia Now, I prefume. It hath been already proved, that Gtetulia 



AtTal '""Vas Situated immediately beyond the Mountains oi ^tlas and 

 the Tell. That It reached likewife to no great Diftance within 

 the Sahara, feems probable from the fame Accounts and Defcrip. 

 tions. I have therefore bounded Gietul'ia to the Southward with 

 the WedAdjedee. 

 neMELA- After Gatulia, Ttolemy reckons up the Nations that were 

 and gara- fituated beyond It; among which, the Melanogatuli ^.naGara- 

 ag^elter of- mantes, the chiefeft of Them, take Place immediately after the 

 (Proper) Gceiulians. They certainly extended Themfelves be- 

 hind the greateft Part of that Country, which belongs atpi efent 

 to the Regencies οϊ Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoly, or from the 

 Meridian of Siga to the Cyrenaica, 3 5•°. farther to the E. There 

 being then no other Nations in this Direction, befides the Beni 

 The Gara- Mezzal• , thc Inhabitants of JVad-reag, the Citizens oiWurglah, 

 cTa-demz^ Gad- demz, Fezzan &c. WiththQir XQfytdiwQBedoween Arabs *^ 

 Fczzan, &c. ^^^ MelanogatuU and Garamantes feem to be the only People, 

 who can lay Claim to this Situation. And as the Garamantes, from 

 their fuppofed Polition with refpeol to the Fountains of the Ba- 

 grada, (it is of no great Moment in this Difquifition, whether 

 They are as Ttolemy hath placed them, or as we find them at prc- 

 fent) may be prefumed to fall in with the Diftriols of Gad-demz, 

 Fezzan, and fome of the other more diftant Cities and Villages 

 JSiii^ '"/" of the Kingdom oiTripoly, \.\\q Melanogcettdi, lying to the 

 waci-reag, wrei^ward of the Garamantes, will for the fame Reafon cofref- 

 pond with the Beni Mezzal•, the Inhabitants QiWad-reag, and 

 the other more fouthern Communities of This Kingdom. 



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