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The Oifagree. Of tHc modem Geographers, Luyts \ by giving This King- 

 Idolrnald dom 7,°. of Long. and ^\ of Lat. feems to have been the beft 

 acquainted with the Extent of It in general. For Sanfon, by- 

 placing Cape Bon in N. Lat. ^ψ\ 15•'. and Cafes or Gabs in N. 

 Lat. 30°. fituatethlt more than 3'. too far to the South. Moll 

 indeed bringeth It, a few Minutes only, too far to the North- 

 ward ; but extendethit to the Southward beyond the Parallel of 

 Tripolji ; as Delijle hath likewife done in His Royal Map of 

 Africa. Whereas a remarkable Chain of Mountains, in the fame 

 Parallel with the liland of Jerba, are the Boundaries of the 

 Kingdoms of Tunis and Tripolj. 

 Anth,n Geo- If we attend to what the Antient Geographers have faid in 

 r^'"^"'"'" Relation to This Kingdom, we ihall find the like Errors and 

 Difagreements that were complained of in the Kingdom of 

 Algiers. For Ttolemy, not to mention His Pofition oiCarthage\ 

 and fo refped;ively of other Places, four Degrees too far to the 

 Southward, maketh the Latitudinal Diftance betwixt the Pro- 

 montory oi Apollo, and the liland Men'inx \ to be no more than 

 1°. 5- 5•', though the Longitudinal, particularly betwixt Thahraca* 

 and Clypea, is nearly the fame that I find It. The Itinerary ^ 

 alfo, though a much better Conduolor in general than Ttolemy^ 

 may, as RiccioUus ' hath already obferved, be charged with 

 Faults and Contradi6tions, which will be taken Notice of in 

 their refpeolive Places : whilft ΤΙιηγ \ by putting the greateft 

 Part of the Cities of This Kingdom in an alphabetical Order, 

 very little inftruds us. Even in the Enumeration of the mari- 

 time Towns of Bizacmm\ where He feems to follow fome 

 Method, yet, by placing Rufpina after Leptis, He would infi- 

 nuate, that the Latter, contrary to what appears from Hirtius 

 and other Authors, was at a greater Diftance from the leifer 

 Syrtis. There appears to be an Error of another Kind , in 

 making the Province oiB'tzac'mm CCL Miles only in Compafs ^ ; 

 whereas, in bounding It to the N. and S. with the Parallels of 

 Adrumetum and Tacape, and to the W. with Sufetula, (one of 

 the weftern Cities of It,) we ihall have a Space of at leaft D. 



I Regnum Tunetanum cxplicat fe ab Occafu in Ortum ultra trcs gradus, atque ab Auftro 

 in Boream ultra quatuor, proinde Regno Algeriano longe minus eft. Luyts Introd. ad Geogr. 

 Sed. IV. c. 19. p. 673. 2 Exc. p. 13. C. F. 3 Exc. p. 17. C. 4 Exc. p. 13. B. D. 

 y£xf. p.zy.&c. 6 Vid. Riu. Gcogr. I.3. c.io. 7 Exc. p.22. C. D. 8 Ibid. B. 9 Ibid. A. 



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