GEOGRAPHICAL 
Angela is found in Herodotus, Book IV. under the name of 
j^gila \ and in Ptolemy and Pliny it is written ^2/^/7^2. In 
Ptolemy, Africa Tab. III. it is placed about 197 miles from 
the fea coail:, and about a degree of longitude to the eaftward 
of Darnis, Its longitudinal portion from Mourzouk and Cairo, 
agrees very well: and confidering the extent of Ptolemy's local 
knowledge in this quarter, we may fuppofe him well acquainted 
with its diftance from the coaft. Allowance mufi: be made 
for an excefs of diftance given by Ptolemy's fcale, in this Map ; 
and it bei:-g in the proportion of twenty-feven to twenty-three^ 
the one hundred and ninety-feven miles Ihould be reduced to 
one hundred and fixty-eight: and according to this, Augela 
ought to ftand in latitude 29^ 20'i and nearly midway between 
Mourzouk and Cairo. 
Gegabib, as has been faid before, is feven days journey from 
Augela, towards Cairo ; and as I have a particular pleafure in 
producing any authority that ferves to prove the veracity of fuch 
an Author as Herodotus, I lhall juft mention, that (in B. IV..) 
he fays, that the Nafamones in the Summer feafon, leave their 
cattle on the coafl, and go to the plains of ^gila, to gather the 
fruit of the Palm trees, which abound in that place. The po- 
fition of this coaft, is marked by its lying on the Weft of 
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