20 Geographical Obfervattons upon the Sea Coaft 



sikack, ward of the Harjh-goone. The Sik-ack is a rapid Stream five 

 Miles to the Northward of Tlem-fan, in the Way to Tackum- 

 breet. One of the Fountains is lukewarm, and well ftored with 

 Filh, from whence it has the Name of [o^^s'i e>ivc, ^in elHoute'] 

 iffer, the 216^ Fountain of Fi floes. The IJfer has It's Fountains, to the 

 SE, among the Mountains of the Beni-Sme-al, a Tribe oi Afri- 

 cans bordering upon the Sahara, yibulfeda ' takes Notice of 

 It as a coniiderable River ; which, by the Situation, and Affi- 

 ^v.%!./ c "^^y ^" ^^^ Word, fhould be the y^ff^ara of Ttokm/, and the 

 Er/^^^B {f^^^^ perhaps of the Anonymous Geographer. All thefe Branch- 

 es unite at a fmall Diftance from the Sea, and form a River as 

 broad as the Ifis^ where It palTeth by Oxford. 

 bJee?'w -^^ thQVL we compare the Places and Rivers, I have juft now 

 iTo^'cwx d^fcribed, with the old Geography ; the Tafna will be the Ri- 

 viu.^e!'"' ^^^ *^^<^^ °^ Ttolemy, and Tackum-hreet the City of that Name. 

 9- c. Hunneine, if it be not rather the Tortus Ccecili of the Itinerary, 

 gypsakia. ^-ji ^g likewife His Gypfaria\ for All Thefe Places are fituated 

 betwixt His Great Tromontory and the River Affara. Tltny 

 agrees with Ttolemy in placing Siga, to the Eaftward of the 

 ■Malvana, in the Mauritania Ccejarienfis ; but it will be diffi- 

 cult to account for His fixing It at the fame Time over againft 

 ^fEuTbyhx- Malacha, the Malaga^ as It is now called, in Spain. For This 

 gah:fl'mh- City,lying feventy Leagues to the W.N. W. on/y oi Tackum-hreet, 

 ai^E.^'"'' ^" cannot have fuch an oppofite Situation. Moreover, liSiga fhould 

 be in the fame Meridian with Malaga, (for fo I conjecture 

 Pliny's ex adverfo will be generally interpreted ) the Tingita- 

 nia, fliort as He hath already made It, would, upon this Sup- 

 pofition, be much more contracted ; and the Mahana or Mai- 

 •va, the eaftern Boundary of It, could not be twenty five Leagues 

 diflant from the Atlantic Ocean. The Contrapofition therefore 

 mentioned by Tliny, muft have fome other ConftruCtion put up- 

 on It, as I fhall have Occafion to obferve in another Place. 

 ^'I^^J/^-^""^" However, that Siga was fituated in This Pofition, at fome Di- 

 jsL^^^^F. ft^^ce from the Maha, befides the Authority of the Anony- 

 p.15. F.A. ;;2o^ Geographer, wehaveThat likewife of theT/i;?^^^^^; par- 

 ticularly where Siga is placed twenty feven Miles to the Weft- 

 ward of the Flumen Salfum, or in the very fame Situation, 

 that Tackum-hreet hath,with RefpeCt to the Wed-el-Mailah. If 

 This River then be the Flumen Salfum of the Antients, as will 



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