12 Geographical Objervations 



Strabo and Mela : at leaft they do not take notice of it under 

 that Name. And fuch of the old Geographers' who lived after 

 Tliny and Ttolemy and fpeak of the Maha, are altogether filent 

 about the Mulucha. There muft then be fome great Error or 

 Omiffion in the old Geography, with Refpe6t to thefe Rivers. 

 For if the Maha and Mulucha are different, then the moft con- 

 liderable of them, (which doth not feem probable) muft have 

 been entirely forgotten and omitted. But if the Error ftiould 

 lye, as it feems moft reafonable to think, in miftaking one Name 

 for the other: or, if what the earlier Ages called Mulucha, 

 (or perhaps Muluh-ha, as the antient Greeks and Romans pro- 

 nounced it ) was afterwards changed or foftened into Maha, 

 Malua or m*av*, as they became more converfant with the 

 Moorijlo Idioms and Terminations ; then the Maha, which we 

 now find to bound the Two Mauritania, will be the fame Ri- 

 ver with the Mulucha, that bounded formerly the Moors and 

 Numidians. 

 No Alteration And indccd, by what we can collect from Hiftory, there does 

 silnv? V"°^ ^^^^ ^° ^^ much Reafon for fuppofmg any Alteration to 

 WMalTriS-have been ever made in the Limits between thefe Provinces; 

 ""■ but that the fame, which were in the Time oiBocchus and Ju- 



gurtha, were kept entire and without any Alteration, through 

 the feveral Succeflions of the Numidian Kings * and Roman 

 Trtefe&s, till the Reign of Auguflm. 



We find that Numidia was a Roman Province ' in the Times 

 of Jul. Cafar and Auguftus : but Bogud and Bocchus, fuccef- 

 five Kings oi Mauritania, being Friends to thofe Emperours*, 

 muft be fuppofed to have kept their Kingdoms entire, without 

 any Diminution or Augmentation, fo far as appears from Hi- 

 ftory. 'Dion ' acquaints us, that Auguftus gave the Younger 

 Juha Egypt and his Father's Kingdom ; and confequently. His 

 Territories extended to the Mulucha, the oldWeftern Bounda- 



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 Syphace, Popiilus Romams qiiafcunque urbes & agros manu ceperat, regi donodedit (fc. Ma- 

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 iy)(g,Tun<mf. ^ppian. deBell. civil. 1.2. p.490. Ed. Steph. 1^92. Exc. p. 29. ex ^. Rtifo. Vid. 

 Not.(J.p.5. 4 Vid.Not.J.p.IJ. 5: liCoi, tJ r liCv "muJi — i Kaumf "Tfapw n ly 7« iTtfJai 1^ ngpa. 

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