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Tucca\ situate on the eea-shore and upon the river Amp- 

 saga. In the interior are the colony of Augusta, also called 

 Succabar^, Tubusuptus^, the cities of Timici and Tigavie*, 

 the rivers 8ardabal'^, Aves', and Nabar', the nation of the 

 Macurebi, the river Usar*, and the nation of the Nababes. 

 The river Ampsaga is distant from Csesarea 322" miles. The 

 length of the two Mauritaniaa is 1038, and their breadth 

 407 miles. 



CHAP. 2. (3.) — NTJMIDIA. 



At the river Ampsaga Numidia begins, a countrv rendered 

 iUustrious by the faiue of Masinissa. By the Greeks this 

 region was called Metagonitis'" ; and the Numidians received 

 the name of " Nomades " from their frequent changes of pas- 

 turage ; upon which occasions they were accustomed to carry" 

 their mapalia^ or in other words, their houses, upon waggons. 



* Destroyed, according to Hardouin, and probably by the incuwions 

 of the sea. At the mouth of the Ampsaga (now callea the Wad-El- Kebir 

 or SuQimar, and higher up the Wadi Roiunel) there is situate a small 

 sea-port called Marsa Zeitoun. 



2 Near the present Mazuaa, according to Mannert. 



' The modem Burgh, according to D'Anville and Mannert, but more 

 probably considerably to the east of that place. 



^ The modem El-Herba, according to Mannert. 



' Marcus suggests that this is the Chinalaph of Ptolemy, and probably 

 the modem Sehellif. 



* The same that is called Savis by Ptolemy, who places Icosium on 

 its banks. 



7 By Mela caUed the Vabar. Marcus supposes it to be the same as 

 the modem Giffer. 



* By Ptolemy called the Sisar ; the Ajebbi of modem geographers, 

 which falls into the Mediterranean, near the city of Budja. 



* Brotier says that this reading is incorrect, and that 222 is the pro- 

 per one, that being the true distance between the river Ampsaga or Wad- 

 el- Kebir and the city of Csesarea, the modem Zershell. 



^^ It was not only Kvmiidia that bore this name, but all the northern 

 coast of Africa from the frontiers of the kingdom of Carthage near Hippo 

 Regius to the Colvunns of Hercules. It was thus called from the Greek 

 metagonos, a " descendant " or " successor ;" as the Carthaginians 

 estabhshed a number of small towns and villages on the coast,, which 

 were thus posterior in their origin to the large cities already founded 

 there. 



1^ Hardouin says that the Moors in the interior stUl follow the same 

 usage, carrying their houses from pasture to pasture on waggons. 



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