1^2 Geographical Ohjervations 



of This Circuit is of no extraordinary Fertility ; there being 

 feveral Hills , Plains , and Marflies difperfed all over It ^ 

 which will fubmit to no manner of Cultivation and Improve- 

 ment. 

 The ijiand of The River Zaine, with the antient Thabraca fituated upon 

 Ta-barka. ^j^^ weftem Bants of It, hath been already defcribed. The fmall 

 Ifland which lyeth over againft It, is, at prefent, in the Pof- 

 feflion of the Genoeje, who pay an annual Rent for It to This 

 Regency ; but the little Advantage that hath lately been made 

 of the Coral Fifliery , the chief Reafon of Their Settlement , 

 will poflibly oblige Them to abandon It in a lliort Time. They 

 have here a tolerable good Fort, very capable to protect 

 Them, as well againft any Surprize from the Ze-nati and other 

 ylrabs of the neighbouring Continent, as from the Infults of 

 the cruifing VelTels oi Algiers and Tripoly. 

 Cape Negro. Cape NegTO, five Leagues to the N. E. of Ta-i^arka, is like- 

 wife remarkable for a Settlement of the French African Com- 

 pany, who pay a conliderable Sum of Money to the Tunifeens 

 for the fame Privileges They enjoy at La Calk. They like- 

 wife have a fmall Fortification to protect Them from the fre- 

 The adjacent qucnt Attacks of the Mo-gody, Niphi-jeenjy and other neigh- 

 cians. bouring Arahs. 



Jalta^ the Galata or Calathe of the Antients, is a high rocky 

 galIta,^^ Ifland, fix Leasues to the Northward of Cape Negro, and ten 

 Exc. p.iy.B. to the N. N. E. of Ta-harka. A very dangerous Shoal, un- 

 &"* ^" known to our Sea Charts, lyeth about five Leagues from It 



to the W. S. W. 



Cape serra. Five Leagues to the N. E. of Cape Negro , is Cape Serra, 



the moft advanced Part of Africa to the Northward ; and 



Hi. Frati. |.|^gj^^ fo^jj. Leagucs farther, are The [Fratt~] Brothers, Three 



rocky Iflands, lying near the Continent, at the half Way to 



Cape Blanco. 



CapeBianco, This Cape, which the Moors call The [Ras elAheadh'\ White 



Tromontory, is of a chalky Subftance ; being without Doubt 



K.fPromon-the Tromontorium CandiduM oiTliny, and probably the Tro- 



Sdum. ^ix'c.montorium Tulchrum oiLivj, where Scipio made His Defcent 



p.ii.cap.iv. jj^ pj-g ^^^ African Expedition '. That This was the Tromon- 



I Jam terram cernebantj [ex SkU'ta navigantes) haud multo pod gubernator Scip'toni ait : 

 non plus quinque millia pafluum ylfricam abeffe, Mercurij Promontor'tum fe cernere, fi jubeat 

 eo dirigi, jam in portu fore omnem claffem. Sc'ip'to, ut in confpectu terra fuit, precatus 

 Deos, uti bono Reipiiblicae fuoque Afrkam viderit^ dare vela & alium Infra navibus ac- 



ceflutn 



