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the river Laud', which is also navigable for vessels, the town 

 and port of Khysaddir', and Malvane', a navigable stream. 



The cityofSiga^ formerly the residence of King Syphax, lies 

 opposite to that of MalacaJ in Spain : it now belongs to the 

 second* Mauritania. But these countries, I should remark, 

 for a long time retained the names of their respective kings, 

 the further Mauritania being called tbe "land of BogudV' 

 while that which is now called Caesariensis was called the 

 " country of Bocchus." After passing Siga we come to the 

 haven called "Portus Magnus *"' from its great extent, with a 

 town whose people enjoy the rights of Eoman citizens, and 

 then the river Mulucha , which served as the limit between 

 the territory of Bocchus and that of the Massaesyli. Next 

 to this is Quiza Xenitana'", a town founded bjr strangers, 

 and Arsenaria", a place with the ancient Latin rights, tliree 

 miles distant from the sea. We then come to Cajrtenna^'^, a 



that it is called the Setuan, and is the largest stream on the northern 

 shores of Western Africa. 



^ The modem Goniera according to Hardouin, the Nocor according 

 toMannert. * The modem MeUlla most probably. 



» The modem Maluia. Antoninus calls it Malva, and Ptolemy Maloua. 



* Its site is occupied by the modem Aresgol, according to Mariana, 

 Guardia or Sereni according to Dupinet, Ned-Roma according to Man- 

 nert and D'Anville, and Tachumbrit according to Shaw. Marcus is in- 

 cUned to be of the same opinion as the last-mentioned geographer. 



* Now the city of Malaga. 



' Mauritania Ceesariensis, or CsBsarian Mauritania, now forming the 

 French province of Algiers. 



7 " Bogudiana ;" from Bogud or Bogoas. The last king Bogud waa 

 deprived of his kingdom by Bocchus, king of Mauritania Ceesariensis, a 

 warm partisan of Csesar. 



^ Or the " Great Harbour," now Arzeu according to D'Anville, and 

 Mars-el-Kebir according to Marcus. 



^ The same river probably as the Malva or Malvana previously men- 

 tioned, the word mulucha or malacha coming from the Greek fioXoxv, " a 

 marsh mallow," wliich malva, as a Latin word, also signifies. See p. 383. 



^" From the Greek word iivos^ " a stranger." Pomponius Mela and 

 Antoninus call this place Guiza, and Ptolemy Quisa. D'Anville places 

 it on the right side of the river Malvana or Mulucha, and Shaw says 

 that it was situate in the vicinity of the modem town of Oran. 



'^ Now Marz-Agolet, or situate in its vicinity, according to Hardouin 

 and Ansart, and the present Arzen, according to Marcus, where nume- 

 rous remains of antiquity are found. 



^^ Now Tenez, according to D'Anville, and Mesgraim, according to 

 Mannert ; with which last opinion Marcus agrees. 



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