Cliap. 36.] 
ACCOOTT OF COUT^TRIES, ETC. 
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is a promontory, known as Hesperu Ceras/^ upon the confines 
of Africa, and close to the Hesperise, an Ethiopian nation. 
There are some writers who affirm that in these regions there 
are hills of a moderate height, which afford a pleasant shade 
from the groves with which they are clad, and are the haunts of 
-^gipans^^ and Satyrs. 
CHAP. 36. (31.) ISLANDS OF THE JETHIOPIAIST SEA. 
We learn from Ephorus, as well as Eudoxus and Timos- 
thenes, that there are great numbers of islands scattered all 
over this sea ; Clitarchus says that king Alexander was in- 
formed of an island so rich that the inhabitants gave a talent 
of gold for a horse, and of another^^ upon which there was 
found a sacred mountain, shaded with a grove, the trees of 
which emitted odours of wondrous sweetness ; this last was 
situate over against the Persian Gulf. Cerne^^ is the name 
of an island situate opposite to Ethiopia, the size of which 
has not been ascertained, nor yet its distance from the main 
land : it is said that its inhabitants are exclusively Ethi- 
opians. Ephorus states that those who sail from the Eed 
Sea into the Ethiopian Ocean cannot get beyond the Col- 
umnse^* there, some little islands so called. Polybius says 
B. V. c. 1. It is supposed to have been some portion of th6 Atlas chain ; 
but the subject is involved in the greatest obscurity. 
Or the Western Horn." It is not known whether this was Cape 
de Verde, or Cape Roxo. Ansart thinks that it is the same as Cape Non. 
It is mentioned in c. 1 of B. v. as the " promontorium Hesperium." 
See notes to B. v. c. 1, in vol. i. p. 378. 
52 Marcus says that these islands are those called the " Two Sisters," 
situate to the west of the Isle of Socotra, on the coast of Africa. They 
are called by Ptolemy, Cocionati. 
53 The position of this island has been much discussed by geographers, 
as being intimately connected with the subject of Hanno's voyage to the 
south of Africa. Gosselin, who carries that voyage no further south than 
Cape Non, in about 28" north lat., identifies Cerne with Fedallah, on the 
coast of Fez, which, however, is probably much too far to the north. Major 
Bennell places it as far south as Arguin, a little to the south of the southern 
Cape Blanco, in about 20" b' North latitude. Heeren, Mannert, and others, 
adopt the intermediate portion of Agadir, or Souta Cruz, on the coast of 
Morocco, just below Cape Ghir, the termination of the main chain of the 
Atlas. If we are to trust to Pliny's statement, it is pretty clear that nothing 
certain was known about it in his day. 
64 The " Pillars." Marcus thinks that these were some small islands 
near the Isle of Socotra. 
