1 46 Of the Kingdom 



The Difagree- Of thc modem Gcographcrs, Lups \ by giving This King. 



^Modern aid diom g". of Long. and 4°. of Lat. feems to have been the belt 

 acquainted with the Extent of It in general. For Sanjon, by 

 placing Ca'^e Bon in N. Lat. 34.'. i j-'. and Ca^es or Gabs in N. 

 Lat. 30°. lituatethlt more than 3°. too far to the South. Moll 

 indeed bringeth It, a few Minutes only, too far to the North- 

 ward ; but ext^ndethlt to the Southward beyond the Parallel of 

 Tripolj! ; as Delijle hath likewife done in His Royal Map of 

 Africa. Whereas a remarkable Chain of Mountains, in the fame 

 Parallel with the Ifland of Jerha, are the Boundaries of the 

 Kingdoms of Tunis and Tripoly. 



Antient Geo- If we attcud to what the Antient Geographers have faid in 



r^'"^"'"' Relation to This Kingdom, we Ihall find the like Errors and 

 Difagreements that were complained of in the Kingdom of 

 Algiers. For Ttolemy, not to mention His Poiition oi^ Carthage ', 

 and fo refpedtively of other Places, four Degrees too far to the 

 Southward, maketh the Latitudinal Diftance betwixt the Pro- 

 montory oi Apollo, and the Ifland Meninx\ to be no more than 

 1°. 5" 5-'. though the Longitudinal, particularly betwixt Thahraca^ 

 and Clypea, is nearly the fame that I find It. The Itinerary ^ 

 alfo, though a much better Condudlor in general than Ttolemy^ 

 may, as Ricc'tolius ^ hath already obferved, be charged with 

 Faults and Contradiclions, which will be taken Notice of in 

 their refpedlive Places : whilft Tliny \ by putting the greateft 

 Part of the Cities of This Kingdom in an alphabetical Order* 

 very little inftru6ls us. Even in the Enumeration of the mari- 

 time Towns of Bizacmm\ where He feems to follow fome 

 Method, yet, by placing Rufpina after Leptis, He w^ould infi- 

 nuate, that the Latter, contrary to what appears from Hirtius 

 and other Authors, was at a greater Diftance from the lelTer 

 Syrtis. There appears to be an Error of another Kind , in 

 making the Province of Bizacium CCL Miles only in Compafs ' ; 

 whereas, in bounding It to the N. and S. with the Parallels of 

 Adrumetum and Tacape, and to the W. with Sufetuhy (one of 

 the weftern Cities of It,) we fhall have a Space of at leaft D. 



I Regnutn Tunetanum explicat fe ab Occafu in Ortum ultra tres gradus, atque ab Auftro 

 in Boream ultra quatuor, proinde Regno Algertano longe minus eft. Luyts Introd, ad Geogr. 

 Seft. IV. c. 19. p. 673. 2 Exc. p. 13. C. F. 3 Exc. p. 17. C. 4 Exc. p. 13. B. D. 

 $Exc, p.25. &c. 6 Vid. Kiu. Geogr. I.3. c.io. 7 Exc. p.22. C. D. 8 Ibid. B. 9 Ibii. A. 



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