GEOGRAPHICAL SYSTEMS. 
Bled-el- Jereede, then these last rivers must have 
been wholly unknown to Ptolemy, which is very 
improbable. 3, The two northern branches of 
the Gir bear a strong resemblance to the combin- 
ed streams of the Adjidi and Blanco. We may 
add, that the name Gir is native in this part of 
Africa, and is applied to a river of Sigilmessa ; 
also that the name of Libya suggests the region 
south of the Atlas, much more than the depths of 
the interior, which were always designated by the 
appellation of Ethiopia* 
While it seems impossible to resist the force of 
these arguments, there are other circumstances in 
Ptolemy's description, which would lead us to look 
in Nigritia for the country which he here describes. 
The Nuba Palus is a name belonging to quite a 
different part of the continent from that watered 
by the Adjidi. Mount Mandrus, as the western 
termination of the Niger, suggests in the strongest 
manner the territory of Handing. Panagra agrees 
almost equally with Wangara, and Caphas with 
Kaffaba. The description, both by Ptolemy and 
Agathemerus,* of the Niger and Gir, as [juiyigrof 
"^orocffjot, " rivers of the greatest magnitude," and 
the placing them on a level with the Nile, agrees 
very ill with any streams which descend from the 
Atlas. The same may be said of the direction of 
* Geog. Graec. Minor. II. 49. 
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