1^6 Geographical Ohfer "cations in the Inland Country &:c. 



tivated Parts of Numidia, at fome Diftance from the Sahara^ 

 the Country of the Melanogatuli, from This Circumftance, will 

 only fall in with the Proper Gatulia, and confequently, the Tha- 

 rufij can be no other, than the moft fouthern Inhabitants of the 

 Tell, or of the Mountains of y4tlas. But as this cannot be ad- 

 mitted, w^e are to argue from the general Tenour of Ttolemfs 

 Tables, concerning the particular Situation of thefe Nations. 

 GxtuHa Now, I prefume. It hath been already proved, that Gatulia 



AtTal "' ' was Situated immediately beyond the Mountains oi Atlas and 

 the Tell. That It reached likewife to no great Diftance within 

 the Sahara, feems probable from the fame Accounts and Defcrip. 

 tions. I have therefore bounded Gattdia to the Southward with 

 the JVedAdje dee. 

 tc^mela- After Gietul'ta, Ttolemy reckons up the Nations that were 

 and gara- fituatcd bcyond It; among which, the Melanogatuli ^naGara- 

 a greater Di- ma^tes, thc chiefcft of Them, take Place immediately after the 

 (Proper) Gatuliam. They certainly extended Themfelves be- 

 hind the greateft Part of that Country, which belongs at pr efent 

 / to the Regencies q{ yilgters^ Tunis, and Trifoly\ or from the 

 Meridian of Siga to the Cyrenaica, 3 5-°. farther to the E. There 

 being then no other Nations in thisDirettion, befides the Bent 

 The Gara- Mezzah ^ the Inhabitants of IVad-reag, the Citizens oilVurglah, 

 Gad-demzr Gad-demz, Fezzan &c. with their refpeftive Bedoween Arabs ; 

 ezzan, c. ^^ MelanogatuH and Garamantes feem to be the only People, 

 who can lay Claim to this Situation. And as the Garamantes ^ from 

 their fuppofed Podtion with refpedl to the Fountains of the Ba- 

 grada, (it is of no great Moment in this Difquilition, whether 

 They are as Ttolemy hath placed them, or as we find them at pre- 

 fent) may be prefumed to fall in with the Diftri£ts of Gad-demZy 

 Fezzan, and fome of the other more diftant Cities and Villages 

 g^'tJlf f'"°" of the Kingdom o^Tripoly, the Melanogcetuli, lying to the 

 wad-reag, Weftward of the Garamantes, will for the fame Reafon corref. 

 pond with the Bent Mezzah, the Inhabitants Q>i Wad-reag, and 

 the other more fouthern Communities of This Kingdom. 



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