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are bordered upon by the Gsetulian Darse^ lying in the 

 interior. Upon the coast again, we find the Ethiopian 

 Daratitae, and the river Bambotus^, teeming with croco- 

 diles and hippopotami. From this river there is a con- 

 tinuous range^ of mountains till we come to the one which 

 is known by the name of Theon Ochema^, from which to the 

 Hesperian Promontory^ is a voyage of ten days and nights ; 

 and in the middle of this space he® has placed Mount Atlas, 

 which by all other writers has been stated to be in the ex- 

 treme parts of Mauritania. 



The Roman arms, for the first time, pursued their con- 

 quests into Mauritania, under the Emperor Claudius, when 

 the freedman -Sidemon took up arms to avenge the death of 

 King Ptolemy', who had been put to death by Caius Csesar ; 



1 Marcus believes these to have been the ancestors of the present race 

 of the Touaricks, while the Melanogtetuli were the progenitors of the 

 Tibbos, of a darker complexion, and more nearly resembling the negroes 

 in bodily conformation. 



3 Supposed by Gossehn to be the present river Nim, or Non. Ac- 

 cording to Bochart, tliis river received its name from the Hebrew or 

 Phoenician word behemoth or bamoth, the name by which Job (xl. 15) 

 calls the crocodile [or rather the hippopotamus]. Bochart, however, 

 with Mannert, Bougainville, De Rennet, and De Heeren, is of opinion, 

 that by this name the modem river Senegal is meant. Marcus is of 

 opinion that it is either the Non or the modem Sobi. 



* Marcus here observes, that from Cape Alfach, below Cape Non, 

 there are no mountains, but continual wastes of sand, bordering on the 

 sea-shore. Indeed there is no headland, of any considerable height, 

 between Cape Sobi and Cape Bajador. 



* " The Chariot of the Gods." Marcus is of opinion that it is the 

 modem Cape Verde ; while, on the other hand, Gosselin takes it to be 

 Cape Non. Brotier calls it Cape Ledo. 



* In B. vi. c. 36, Pliny speaks of this promontory as the " Hesperian 

 Horn," and says that it is but four days' sail from the Theon Ochema. 

 Brotier identifies this promontory vrith the modem Cape Roxo. Marcus 

 is of opinion that it was the same as Cape Non ; but there is considerable 

 difficTilty in determining its identity. 



^ AUuding to Poly bins ; though, according to the reading which Sillig 

 has adopted a few lines previously, Agrippa is the last author mentioned. 

 Pliny has here mistaken the meaning of Polybius, who has placed Atlas 

 midway between Carthage, from which he had set out, and the Pro- 

 montory of Theon Ochema, which he reached. 



7 Ptolemy the son of Juba II. and Cleopatra, was summoned to Rome 

 in the year a.d. 40, by Caligula, and shortly after put to death by him, 

 his riches having excited the emperor's cupidity. Previously to this, he 



