of Algiers in general p 



I have met with nothing in the old Geography that de- r/.. Dz/^gr..- 

 termines the Bounds and Extent of Gatulia^ but the Maiiri-"hf oidZu 

 tania and xhQ NumidiaTropria in Conjundion with y4frica areJIJ.^"'^''^" 

 particularly marked out and circumfcribed ; though, if we are to 

 bound Them to the Southward ' with the Mountains o^^tlas and 

 the Sahara, thefeveralDiftances will not always anfwer to later 

 Obfervations. Thus T/mj, who is followed herein hy Martianus, 

 maketh the Breadth of the Mauritanice to be four hundred and 

 lixty feven Miles '. But This will be too much even for the Tin- 

 gitania, where indeed the correfponding Part of Mount ^t. 

 las' lyeth confiderably to the Southward ; and more than three 

 hundred Miles beyond the utilioft Extent of any Part of the 

 C(ejarienjts\ The two hundred Miles, which the fame Author 

 lays down for the Breadth of Numidia \ is nearer the Truth, 

 though twenty Leagues more than I have found it. Nor have 

 the Antients faid any thing , more to be relied upon, of the par- 

 ticular Length either of the Mauritania Ccefarienfis, or of the 

 Numidia Tropria. Tliny giveth us an hundred and feventy Miles, 

 which are too few, for the Tingitania ^ ; and eight hundred and 

 lixty nine {Martianus Qi^t hundred and feventy three ^) which 

 are too many, for the defarienfis ^ ; but is lilent as to the par- 

 ticular Length of Numidia exclufive of Africa. The ///- 

 nerary^ maketh the Coaft from the Tortus Credit (which we 

 are to look for near the Great Promontory or Cape Hone as it 

 is now called) to Taharca, to be near a thoufand Miles ; a greater 

 Error than that of Sanfons : and Ttolemy '% who placeth the 

 defarienfis between the Maha and Ampfaga (or Great River,) 

 I e. from Long. ii\ lo', to%6\ ly', extendeth that Province 

 alone, (by allowing, as above, forty eight Miles and an half 

 to a Degree,) upwards of feven hundred Miles ; a Miftake ftill 

 greater than that in the Itinerary, 



Neither muft we omit another Error of This Author in placing p^^j^^^ ^.,. 

 His Great Tromontory in N. Lat. 35-°. and the Ampfaga in 31°. ^^IZj^Jl' 

 45"'- and fo in Proportion of the interjacent Places; whereby this ^^'^'^ <^'"'V?- 

 Part of the Coaft is laid down nearly in an E. S. E. Direction. 

 Whereas in Sailing from the Mullooia to Nahhos, we are to keep 

 almoft a N. E. Courfe ; after which, to the Ras Acconnatter, 



I Vid. Not. 4. p. 8. ■2.Exc. p. 21. Cap. 2. E. p. 30. D. 3 Viz, iTzVi^i, cujus Lar.3y"'. 2j'. 

 ad Atlantem majorem, cujus Lat. 26°. 30'. Pro/. Geogr. 1. 4. Cap.i. 4 Vid. 5 2. p.4. j Exc. 

 p.22. B. <5£xc. p.2i. Cap.2. C. 7 £*c. p.30. D. 8 jEat. p. 21. Cap,?,. E. 9 Exc. p.2j. 

 ID Exc. p.p. B. p. 10. C. 



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