142 Geographical Ohjervations 



of This Circuit is of no extraordinary Fertility ; there being 

 feveral Hills, Plains, and Marilies difperfed all over It 

 which will fubmit to no manner of Cultivation and Improve- 

 ment. 



The jfland of Thc Rivcr Zaine^ with the antient Thahraca lituated upon 



Ta-barka. ^j^^ weftcm Banks of It, hath been already defcribed. The fmall 

 liland which lyeth over againit It, is, at prefent, in the Pof- 

 feffion of the Genoeje, who pay an annual Rent for It to This 

 Regency ; but the little Advantage that hath lately been made 

 of the Coral Fifhery , the chief Reafon of Their Settlement, 

 will poffibly oblige Them to abandon It in a ihort Time. They 

 have here a tolerable good Fort, very capable to protedt 

 Them, as well againft any Surprize from the Ze-nati and other 

 jirahs of the neighbouring Continent, as from the Infults of 

 the cruifingVeiTels of ^/^ie'ri and Tripoly. 



CapeNegro. Cape Negvo, nvQ Lcagucs to the N. E. of Ta-I^arka, is like- 

 • wife remarkable for a Settlement of the French African Com- 

 pany, who pay a confiderable Sum of Money to the Tunifeens 

 for the fame Privileges They enjoy at La Calk. They like- 

 wife have a fmall Fortification to proteot Them from the fre- 



Thc adjacent qucnt Attacks of the Mo-gody , Niphi-jeenj and other neigh- 



cians. bouring Arahs. 



Jalta, the Galata or Calathe of the Antients, is a high rocky 



GAllTA,irifland, fix Leasues to the Northward of Cape Negro, and ten 



r^ A τ ATHE. 



Exc.-p.ij.B. to the N. N. E. of Ta-barka. A very dangerous Shoal, un- 

 p.2z. .p- •j.j^Q^jj jQ Qyj. ge^ Charts, lyeth about five Leagues from It 



totheW.S.W. 

 Gape serra. Fivc Lcagues to tlic N. E. of Cape Negro , is Cape Serra, 



the molt advanced Part of Africa to the Northward ; and 

 10. Frati. ^-j^^j^^ fQ^j- Lcagucs farther, are The [Fran'] Brothers, Three 



rocky I Hands, lying near the Continent, at the half Way to 



Cape Blanco. 

 CapeBhnco, This Cape, which the Moors call The \^Ras elAheadh] White 



Tromontory, is of a chalky Subftance ; being without Doubt 

 i^ePromo.i-the Tromontorium CandiduM oiTliny, and probably the Tro- 

 Sdum. ^Exc.niontorium Tulchrum ofLhj, where Scipio made His Defcent 

 p.ii.cap.iv. . j^ j^-g ^j.^ African Expedition '. That This was the Tromon- 



I Jam tcrram cerncbant, {ex S'lcUia nav'igantes) haud multo pofl: gubernator Sc'ip'tom ait : 

 noil plus quinque millia paiTuum ^friciim aheffc, Meuurij Promontorium fe ceinere, fi jubeat 

 eo dirigi, jam in portu fore omnem claiTem. Scip'to, ut in confpedlu terra fuit, precatus 

 Dcos, uti bono Reipublicoe doquc Afrkiim viderit, dare vela & aliuoi Infra navibus ac- 



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