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Tucca\ situate on the sea-sliore and upon tlie river Amp- 
saga. In the interior are the colony of Augusta, also called 
Succabar^, Tubusuptus^, the cities of Timici and TigaA^ae^, 
the rivers SardabaP, 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 Mauritanias is 1038, and their breadth 
467 miles. 
CHAP. 2. (3.) — NUMIDIA. 
At the river Ampsaga INTumidia begins, a country rendered 
illustrious by the fame of Masinissa. By the Glreeks this 
region was called Metagonitis^^ ; and the JNumidians received 
the name of " Nomades " from their frequent changes of pas- 
turage ; upon which occasions they were accustomed to carry 
their ma^alia, or in other words, their houses, upon waggons. 
^ Destroyed, according to Hardouin, and probably by tbe incursions 
of the sea. At the mouth of the Ampsaga (now called the Wad-El- Kebir 
or Sufjunar, and higher up the Wadi Roumel) there is situate a small 
sea-port called Marsa Zeitoun. 
2 I^ear the present Mazuaa, according to Mannert. 
3 The modern Burgh, according to D'Anville and Mannert, but more 
probably considerably to the east of that place. 
The modern El-Herba, according to Mannert. 
^ Marcu§ suggests that this is the Chinalaph of Ptolemy, and probably 
the modern Schellif. 
^ The same that is called Savis by Ptolemy, who places Icosium on 
its banks. 
By Mela called the Yabar. Marcus supposes it to be the same as 
the modern Griffer. 
s By Ptolemy called the Sisar ; the Ajebbi of modern geographers, 
which falls into the Mediterranean, near the city of Budja. 
^ Brotier says that tliis 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 modern Zershell. 
1^ It was not only Numidia that bore tliis name, but all the northern 
coast of Africa from the frontiers of the kingdom of Carthage near Hippo 
Regius to the Columns of Hercules. It was thus called from the Greek 
metagonos, a "descendant" or "successor;" as the Carthaginians 
established a number of small towns and villages on the coast,, which 
were thus posterior in their origin to the large cities afready foimded 
there. 
Hardouin says that the Moors in the interior still follow the same 
usage, carrying their houses from pasture to pasture on waggons. 
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