Plinies Naturall fliftone, 



A rour of happic memoric, with the franchifes and right of a Colonic, at whofe appointment the 

 old fouldiers were there beftowed. A new towne, Tipafa^with the grannt of the liberties of La- 

 tiuraXikewife Icofiunij endowed by the Emperour^ with the fame donations.Theco- 



lonie of K^uguflus Rufconi^ : andRufGUtum, by cUudm honoured with the free burgeoifie of 

 thecitic. Rufoezus, a colonie of Augu^m Salde, a Colonie of the fame man. Igelgili alfo^and 

 Turca, a towne feated upon the fca and the river Ampfaga- Within the land, the Colonie Au- 

 girfta^the fame that Succubar 5 and likewifeTubrifuptus. Cities, Tim,ici,Tigav3e. Rivers,Sarda- 

 bala and Nabar.The people Macurqbi : the river Vlar^and the nation of the Nabades.The rivet 

 Ampfaga isfrom Casfarea 233 miles.The length of Mauritania both the one and the other to- 

 gither^is 839 miles,the breadth 4^7* 



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Chap. lii. 



• '1 Ext to Ampfaga is Numidia,renowmcd for the name of Mafamjfa : called of the Greeks^ 

 the land Metagonitis. The NumidianNomades,fo named of chaunging their pafture^ 

 who carrie their cottages or fheddes (and thole are all their dwelling houles) about with 

 them upon waines. Their townes be Cullu and Ruficade^ from which 48 miles off within the 

 midland parts, is the colonic Cirta, furnamedof the Cirtanes j another alfo within and a free 

 borough towne^namcd Bulla Regia. But in the urmofl coaft,Tacatua, Hippo Regius, and the 

 C river Armua. The towne Trabacha, of Roman e Cittizens: the river Tufca, which boundeth 

 Numidia ; and befidesthc Numidian marble, and great breed of wild beafts, nothing is there 

 els worth the noting. 



Chap, iiii* 



I"^Rom Tufca forward, you have the region Zeugitana, and the countreypropetly called A- 

 frica. Three promontories : firft, the White ; then anon that of Apol/o over-againft Sardi- 

 nia : and a third of (JHercurie oTpporitc to Sicilie ; which running into thefea, make ivto 

 D crcekes : the one Hipponenfis, next to the towne which they call Hippo rafed 5 the Greeks name 

 it Diarrhyton, for the little brookes and rilles that water the grounds: upon this, there horde- 

 rethTheudaliSjan exempt towne from tribute, but fomewhat farther from the lea fide 5 then 

 thepromontorie of v^//)tf//(7.Andin the other creeke,Vtica, a towne of Romane citizens, enno- 

 bled for the death of Cato : and the river Bagrada. A place called Caftra Cornelia: and the 

 colonie C arthago,among the reliques and mines of great Carthage : and the colonie Maxulla." 

 Townes, Carpi, Mifna, and the free borough Ckipea upon thepromontorie of AlcrctirieJiem^ 

 free towneSjCurubis andNeapolis. Soone after yee fhall meet with another diftin<ftion of Af- 

 frieke indeed. Libyphcenices are they called, who inhabitcByzacium^ for fo is that region na- 

 med ; containing in circuit 250 mylcs, exceeding fertile and plenteous ,wherc the ground fowne 

 E yeeldeth againe to the husband-man 1 00 fold encreafe. In it are free townes, Lcptis, Adrume- 

 turn, Ruspina, and Thapfus:ihen,Thenaj,Macomades,Tacape,Sabrata, reaching to the kfle 

 Syrtis : unto whichjthc length ofNumidia and Africa from Amphaga,is 580 milesithebredth^ 

 of fb much thereof as is knowne, 200. Now this part which wee have called Aftickc, is divided 

 into provinces twainc, the old and the new ; feparated one from the other by a foffe or ditch 

 brought as farre as to ThencS, within the Africanegulfe, which towne is 2 17 my les from Car- 

 thage : and that trench Sapio AfricAnus the fecond,caufed to be made, and bare halfe the char- 

 ges together with theKK. Tj^e third gulfe is parted into twainCjCurfed and horrible places botb^ 

 for the ebbing and flowing of thefea, and thefhelvesbetweenethetwo Syrtes.From Carchags 

 to the nearer of them, which is the lefle, is 300 miles by the account of rdybm : who faith alfb, 

 J5 that the faid Syrte is for loo miles forward daungerous, and 300 about. By land alio thither, 

 the way ispaffeableby obfervation of the Starres,at one time of the yeere onely, and that lyeth 

 through defertfands and places full of ferpents. And then you meet with forrefls replenillied 

 with numbers of wild beafts : and within-forthjwildernefTes of Elephants : and foon after,wafie 

 deferts even beyond the Garamantesj who from theAugilse are diftant twelve daies journey. 



