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account of Brooks of Water : upon this bordereth Theudalis, 

 an exempt Town, but further from the Sea-side ; then the 

 Promontory of Apollo. And in the other Bay, Utica, of 

 Roman Citizens, ennobled by the death of Cato : the River 

 Bagrada. A Place called Castra Cornelia : and the Colony 

 Carthago, among the Relics of great Carthage: and the 

 Colony Maxulla. Towns, Carpi, Misna, and the free Clupea, 

 upon the Promontory of Mercury. Also, free Towns, Cu- 

 rubis and Neapolis. Soon is another distinction of Africa 

 itself. Libyphoenices are they called, who inhabit Byzacium ; 

 for so is that Region named : containing in Circuit 250 Miles, 

 exceedingly fertile, where the Ground sown yieldeth to the 

 Husbandman an hundred-fold Increase. In it are free Towns, 

 Leptis, Adrumetum, Ruspina, and Thapsus : then, Thense, 

 Macomades, Tacape, Sabrata, reaching to the Lesser Syrtis : 

 unto which, the Length of Numidia and Africa from Am- 

 phaga is 580 Miles : the Breadth, of so much as is known, 

 200. This Part, which we have called Africa, is divided into 

 two Provinces, the old and the new ; separated by a Fosse 

 brought as far as to Thense, within the African Gulf; which 

 Town is 217 Miles from Carthage. The third Bay is sepa- 

 rated into two ; horrible Places for the Shallows and ebbing 

 and flowing of the Sea at the two Syrtes. From Carthage 

 to the nearer of them, which is the lesser, is 300 Miles, by 

 the Account of Polybius : who saith, also, that the said Pas- 

 sage of Syrtis is 100 Miles forward and 300 in Circuit. By 

 Land also, the Way to it is by observation of the Stars, and 

 through the Desert over Sands and through Places full of 

 Serpents ; you pass Forests filled with Numbers of wild 

 Beasts : and within, Solitudes of Elephants : and soon after, 

 vast Deserts, even beyond the Garamantes, who, from the 

 Augilae, are distant twelve Days' Journey. Above them was 

 the Nation of the Psylli : and above them the Lake of Lyco- 

 medes environed with Deserts. The Augilee themselves are 

 seated about the middle Way from Ethiopia ; which bendeth 

 Westward, and from the Country lying between the two 

 Syrtes, with an equal Distance on each Side : but the Shore 

 between the two Syrtes is 250 Miles. There standeth the 





