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y CHAPTER II. 



The Province Tingitania. 



THE Length of the Province Tingitania is 170 Miles. The 

 Nations therein are these : The Mauri, which in times past 

 was the principal, and of whom the Province took its Name : 

 and those most Writers have called Marusii. Being by War 

 weakened, they wasted to a few Families. Next to them 

 were the Masssesuli, hut in like manner they were extin- 

 guished. Now are the Nations inhabited by the Getulae, 

 Bannurri, and the Autololes, the most powerful of all : a 

 part of whom were once the Vesuni : but being divided from 

 them, they became a Nation by themselves, and were turned 

 to the ./Ethiopians. This Province being full of Mountains 

 eastward, affordeth Elephants. In the Mountain Abila, 

 also, and in those which for their equal height they call 

 the Seven Brethren : these are joined to Abila, which looketh 

 over the arm of the Sea. From these beginneth the Coast of 

 the Inward Sea. The River Tamuda navigable, and for- 

 merly a Town. The River Laud, which also is able to 

 receive Vessels. The Town Rusardir, and the Harbour. 

 The navigable River Malvana. The Town Siga, over 

 against Malacha, situated in Hispania : the royal Seat of 

 Syphax, and now the other Mauritania. For a long time they 

 kept the names of the Kings, so that the furthest was called 

 Bogadiana: and likewise Bocchi, which now is Caesariensis. 

 Next to it is the Harbour for its space called Magnus, with a 

 Town of Roman Citizens. The River Muluca, which is the 

 limit of Bocchi and the Massaesuli. Quiza Xeriitana, a Town 

 of Strangers : Arsennaria, a Town of Latins, 3 Miles from the 

 Sea : Carcenna, a Colony of Augustus, the Second Legion : 

 Likewise another Colony of his, planted with the Pretorian 

 Cohort : Gunugi : and the Promontory of Apollo. And a 

 most famous Town there, Caesarea, usually in old time called 

 lol, the royal Seat of King Juba : endowed by Divus Clau- 

 dius with the Right of a Colony, by whose Appointment the 

 old Soldiers were there bestowed. A new Town, Tipasa, 





