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ceeding in a westerly direction, there are forests filled with 

 wild beasts, peculiar to the soil of Africa, as far as the 

 river Anatis', a distance of 485 miles, Lixos being distant 

 from it 205 miles. Agrippa says, that Lixos is distant from 

 the Straits of Gades 112 miles. After it we come to a 

 gulf which is called the Gulf of Saguti^, a town situat-e on 

 the Promontory of Mulelacha', the rivers Subur and Salat^, 

 and the port of Eutubis', distant from Lixos 213 miles 

 We then come to the Promontory of the Sun", the port of 

 Eisardir^ the Gtetulian Autololes, the river Cosenus', the 

 nations of the Selatiti and the Ma«ati, the river Masathat', 

 and the river Darat'°, in which crocodiles are found. After 

 this we come to a large gulf, 616" miles in extent, which is 

 enclosed by a promontory of Mount Barce'^, which runs 

 out in a westerly direction, and is called Surrentium'*. 

 Next comes the river Salsus", beyond which lie the Ethio- 

 pian Perorsi, at the back of whom are the Pharusii", who 



* Supposed by some geoffraphera to be the same as that now called 

 the Ommirabili, or the Ora-Rabya. This is also thought by some to have 

 been the same river as is called by Pliny, in p. 381, by the name of 

 Asana ; but the distances do not agree. 



* Supposed by Gossehn to be the present bay of Al-cazar, on the 

 African coast, in the Straits of Cadiz ; though Hardouin takes it to be 

 the (coXttos f/iTropiicds, or " Gulf of Commerce," of Strabo and Ptolemy, 

 By first quoting from one, and then at a tangent fi'om another, Ptiny 

 involves this subject in almost inextricable confusion. 



* Probably the place called Thymiat^rion in the Periplus of Hanno. 



* The present Subu, and the river probably of Sallee, previously 

 mentioned. 



* The modem Mazagan, according to Gosselin. 



* Cape Cantin, according to GosseUu; Cape Blanco, according to 

 Marcus. 7 Probably the Safi, Asafi, or Saffee of the present day. 



* The river Tensift, which runs close to the city of Morocco, in the 

 interior. ^ The river Mogador of the present day. 



^^ The modem river Sua, or Sous. 



" The learned GosseUn has aptly remarked, that this cannot be other 

 than an error, and that " ninety-six" is the correct reading, the Gulf of 

 Sainte-Croix being evidently the one here referred to. 



^2 Mount Barce seems to be here a name for the Atlas, or Daran chain. 



'3 Supposed by Gosselin to be the present Cape Ger. 



^^ The river Assa, according to Gosselin. There is also a river Suse 

 placed here in the maps. 



^ These two tribes probably dwelt between the modem Capes Gtet 

 and Non. 



