8 Of the Kingdom 



The Greet froTti thc hatren". Belides ; as this Chain of Mountains runs for 



Or SoutiycrK ' n t n i i^ 



Boundary, thc moft Part Eaft and Weft, and confequently bounded the 

 Profpedl, as well as the Agriculture of the Maur'itanians and 

 Numidians to the South; we have Room for another Conje- 

 fture, in deducing the Name from their Afpedl and Situation : 

 7)ohor [ ^4^ ] ftill fignifying amongft the Moors and Arabians, 

 the Place or Afpeft of the Sun at Noon-Day ; as the Derom 

 [c=3-n or D'-n] of the Hebrews^ was a Word of the like Import'. 

 If then we choofe to call it Adderim with Solinus and Mar- 

 tianus ; and not fimply 'Dyr'im with Straho and Tlmy : Had- 

 derim, by fupplying [ o-=^ ] Had, will fignify either the Great, or 

 elfe the Southern Eminence, Limit, or Boundary, fuch as Mount 

 Atlas generally is with refpedl to the Mauritania and Kumi- 

 dia, or betwixt the 7>// and the S'/^^^r^?. We may poflibly have 

 fome Rudiments, or Traces of this Name continued down to us, 

 in the Tfra elHammar^ Vra el Attajlo, T)ra el Maintenan, and 

 Jihbel Veera, that are placed in the Neighbourhood, or make 

 a Part of thefe Mountains ; though the feveral Portions and 

 Diftricts of them at prefent, are chiefly known and diftinguifli- 

 ed by the particular Names of the Kahyles [J^W»] or African 

 Families, who refpeftively poflefs them. 

 Gxtuiia a Gietulia, a Part of Ttolemfs Inner Lihya\ is laid down in 

 sahlrl^ ' very indefinite Terms by the Antients; though by comparing 

 their feveral Accounts and Defcriptions, we fhall find the Nor- 

 thern Limits thereof contiguous to, and frequently coinciding 

 with the Southern Limits * of the Mauritania and Numidia. 

 The Villages therefore of Zaah, the antient Zehe, with others 

 that are fituated near the Parallel of the River Adge-dee, will 

 belong to Gatulia properly fo called: as the Beni-Mezzahy 

 and the Inhabitants of Wadreag and Wurglah, with their re- 

 fpeftive Bedoween Arabs, may be the Succelfours of the an- 

 tient Melanogatuli, and perhaps of fome other Libyans y^Nho were 

 in a nearer Situation to the River Niger, and the Ethiopians. 



I Exc. p. 30. A. 2 D"n Aufler, Mcridies: Plaga. meridional'ts : fie dida quafi DIT IT Ha^!- 

 tat'to aha, : quod Sol in ifta plaga altius incedat. Schind. in voce. Targ. jfonath. Jojh. 10.40, 

 3 Vid. Pfo/. Geogr. I.4. cap.(?. 4 £.vf. p. j. E. p. 6. A. E. & Not. a. p. 8. D. E. p. 10. 

 D. p.14. A. p. 22. D. P.29.E. p.30. A. p.ji. A.D. p.35. Cap.p. Lihyes propius mzte u4- 

 /nV«w agitabanc : G^tuU fub Sole magis, baud prociil ab ardoribus: hique mature oppida 

 habuere. Sail. Bell. Jug. 5 21. p.28(J. Super ATttwirfuw G<£fH/oj- accepimus, parcim in tugu- 

 riis, alios incultius vagos agitare : poll eos JEth'iopas efle. Id. 5 22. p. 291. I'-my-H-m Si tous fi" 

 M(we*mr'na( A r«uWk('«, Ptol.ut fupra. Not. 3. 



Tergo GiEtulia glebam 



Porrigit & patulis Nigritx finihs errant. 



Ruf.FeJi. 1^21. 



