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tlieir similarity of height ; these mountains join on 

 to Mounh ( euta and overlook tlie Straits of Gibraltar. 

 At the Scven Brothcrs begins the coast of the 

 Mcditerranean, and next come the navigable river 

 Bedia and the site of a former town of the same 

 name, the river Gomera, also navigable for vessels, 

 thc tov/n and harbour of Safi, and the navigable 

 river Maluia. Oppositc to Malaga in Spain is 

 situated the town of Aresgol, thc cajntal of King 

 Sypliax, whcrc we reach the second Mauretania " — 

 for these regions for a long time took the names 

 of thcir kings, Further Mauretania being called the 

 Lan(] of Bogut and simiharly the present Caesariensis 

 the Land of Bocchus. Afler Aresgol come the port 

 called from its size Great Harbour, a town with 

 Roman citizenship ; the river Muhicha, tJie frontier 

 betwecn the Land of Bocchus and 1 he MasacsyU ; 

 Quiza Xenitana ** (' AUcnville ') ; Arzcn, a town 

 with Latin rights, three miles from the sea ; Tenez, 

 a colony of Augustus, wherc the Second Legion was 

 settled, and Gunugu, Hkewise a colony of the same 

 emperor and the settlcmont of a practorian cohort ; 

 Cape Mestagan, and on it the famous town of 

 Cacsarea,'^ previously called lol, thc capiial of King 

 Juba, to which cok.nial rights were granted by his 

 late ^Lajcsty Claudius ; New Tovvn, founded as a 

 settlemcnt of veteran troops, and Tipasa, grantcd 

 Latin rights by the same emperor's orders, and also 

 Icosium given the same privilege by the empcror 

 Vcspasian ; Rusguniae, a cokmy of Augustus, Rus- 

 ucurium, given the honour of citizenship by Claudius, 

 Rusazus, a colony of Augustus, Saldae, acolony of the 

 same, IgilgiU Hkewise ; the town of Zucca, situated 

 on tlie sea and the river Ampsaga.'' In the interior 



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