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are bordered upon by the Gsetuliaii Darse^ lying in tbe 
interior. Upon tlie coast again, we find the Ethiopian 
Daratitae, and the river Bambotus'^, teeming with croco- 
diles and hippopotami. Erom this river there is a con- 
tinuous range ^ of mountains till we come to the one which 
is known by the name of Theon Ochema'', from which to the 
Hesperian Promontory^ is a voyage of ten days and nights ; 
and in the middle of this space he^ has placed Mount Atlas, 
which by all other writers has been stated to be in the ex- 
treme parts of Mauritania. 
The E^oman arms, for the first time, pursued their con- 
quests into Mauritania, under the Emperor Claudius, when 
the freedman ^Edemon took up arms to avenge the death of 
King Ptolemy^, who had been put to death by Caius Csesar ; 
^ Marcus believes these to have been the ancestors of the present race 
of the Touaricks, while the Melanoga3tuli were the progenitors of the 
Tibbos, of a darker complexion, and more nearly resembling the negroes 
in bodily conformation. 
2 Supposed by Gossehn to be the present river Nun, or 'Non. Ac- 
cording to Bochart, this river received its name from the Hebrew or 
Phoenician word behemoth or hamoth, the name by which J ob (xl. 15) 
calls the crocodile [or rather the hippopotamus]. Bochart, however, 
with Mannert, Bougainville, De Rennet, and De Heeren, is of opinion, 
that by this name the modern river Senegal is meant. Marcue is of 
opinion that it is either the Non or the modern Sobi. 
3 Marcus here observes, that from Cape Alfach, below Cape Non, 
there are no mountains, but continual wastes of sand, bordering on the 
sea-shore. Indeed there is no headland, of any considerable height, 
between Cape Sobi and Cape Bajador. 
* " The Chariot of the Grods." Marcus is of opinion that it is the 
modem Cape Yerde ; while, on the other hand, Grosselin takes it to be 
Cape Non. Brotier calls it Cape Ledo. 
* In B. vi. c. 36, Pliny speaks of this promontory as the " Hesperian 
Horn," and says that it is but four days' sail from the Theon Ochema. 
Brotier identifies this promontory with the modern Cape Koxo. Marcus 
is of opinion that it was the same as Cape Non ; but there is considerable 
difficulty in determining its identity. 
^ Alluding to Polybius j though, according to the reading which Sillig 
has adopted a few lines previously, Agrippa is the last author mentioned. 
Phny has here mistaken the meaning of Polybius, who has placed Atlas 
midway between Carthage, from which he had set out, and the Pro- 
montory of Theon Ochema, which he reached. 
7 Ptolemy the son of J uba II. and Cleopatra, was summoned to Rome 
in the year A.d. 40, by Cahgula, and shortly after put to death by him, 
his riches having excited the emperor's cupidity. Previously to this, he 
