In the Country of the IVeJiern-Moors. i i 



and [^^v^''] Ma low a or Mul-looia, according to the Pronun- 

 ciation of the Moors^ is a large and deep River, w hich empties 

 it lelf into the Mediterranean Sea, over againlt the Bay of ^l- 

 mer'ia in Spain, and lyes about fifty four Miles to the S Wi'W 

 of Cape Hone, and two hundred and forty from the y4tla7itk 

 Ocean. Small cruifing VelTels are admitted within it's Channel, 

 which by proper Care and Contrivance, might be made com- 

 modious for VelTels of greater Burthen, and as navigable as it 

 was heretofore. The Sources of This River, are a great Way 

 within the Sahara, at the Diftance of eight hundred Miles from 

 the Sea, according to Abulfeda ' ; and the Courfe of it, contrary 

 to that of moll other Rivers of this Country, lieth almoft the 

 whole Way in the fame Meridian. From which Circumftances, 

 the Mid'looia appears to be the moft coniiderable River in Bar- 

 hary, and by far the fitted for fuch a Boundary, as the antient 

 Geographers and Hiftorians have made it. 



But whether the Maha was different from the Mulucha,'rhe Un\\x- 

 Molochath, and Chylemath : or, being one and the fame River, cha?h w" 

 were confequently ufed for one and the fame Boundary in the ?/^f ^^'™ i- 

 old Geography, will admit of fome Difpute. The Boundary be-^ '^* 

 tween the Mauri and the Maffajjli, or the Subjedis of Boc- 

 chti6 and Jugtirtha, is by Straho ' afcribed to the Molochath, 

 and by Salluft \ Mela % and Tliny ^ to the Mulucha : it is very 

 probable therefore that thefe were one and the fame River. And 

 the fame Situation that Tliny^ and Mela^ give to their Mulu- 

 cha, in placing it near the Tortus Magnus, is given by Ttole. 

 my ' to his Chylemath ; fo that the Mulucha, Molochath, and 

 Chylemath, appear to be the fame River. Whether the Maha 

 alfo be another Name for it, is the next Thing to be confidered. 



Now the Maha, notwithftanding the Largenefs and great r/^^ Maiva 

 Extent of it's Stream, doth not appear to have been known tOv^'Zll the 



Mulucha &c. 



I In Mdlotiiu influit fluvius Segelmefa, cujus Scaturigo eft ab Auftio Segelmefs, ad magnam 

 ab ea diftanciam, acque ibi in unum fluvium ambo coalefcunt qui in mare al Rum (fc. Medi- 

 terraneum) fe exonerant ad orientem & auftrum Sehta ad diftantiam ter centum & decern mil- 

 liariorum. Inter originem fluvii Segelmefii & oftium ejus quo in mare dilabitur funt circiter 

 odtoginta milliaria. £te Said in Abulfed& Geogr. ex rraducl.V. O.^.Gagnier. 2 Exc. p.d.A. 

 &c. 3 Haud longe a flumine Mulucha, quod Jugurths. Bocihique regnum disjungebat &c. Sal. 

 Bell. Jugurth. Cuntab. 1710. 5 97- P-47I. Gxtulorum magna pars & Nmnida ad flumen ufque 

 Mulucham fub Jugurtlu erant; Mauris omnibus Rex Bacchus imperitabat. Id. 5 22. p.2.92.. 

 Ego flumen Mulucham quod inter me & Mkipfam Cult, non egrediar, nequey;(^«rf/;^?»j id in- 

 trarefinam. BocchiOvat. /(/.5.118. p. ^24. Ad Mauritani am Numida tencnt: proxume Hijpa- 

 niam Mauri funt. Id. ? 22. p. 291. Pauci ad Regem Bocchum in M^wnf^wwwj abierant. M 

 566. p. 398. 4 £.vf.p.i8.Cap.y. in fine, j £.vf. p.2i.Cap.2. d,7 £.vf.uc fupra. ^ Exc. 

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