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contrary to the Opinion of ,fome -Geographers,"^ who 
give it. a much greater Extent. However the ZeugU’ 
tma^ or the greater Part of it at leafl, is {till called 
' Fregea.'Qx. ;the Zrabs \ - and as this' is 
vilithout daubtv.a Corruption! of its ^antient Name,' fo 
the 'Tradition of . it : through fo many Ages,* may 
perhaps be a itronger Argument, that this was the 
Africa properly fo called of Pliny ^ or the Province' 
of Africa^ by Way of Eminence, than moft of the 
Geographical Reafons which ha\^. hitherto appeared'^ 
to the Contrary. ' ? ' •''* -i 
The Kingdom of funis then contains the Africa 
propria of Pllny^ with the Elzaclum oO Strabo, or‘ 
' the Province of Hadrumettum of Ptolemy, to which 
we are likewife to add fo much of Numldla as lies- 
half a Day’s Journey, or fix Leagues Weft of Kejf \ 
for Keff o'c Sicca Venerea is 'now Part' of thefe Do- 
minions,. and which Ptolemy and Pliny in> 
Numldla, though it is almoft in the fame Meri- 
dian with the River fufca,‘ ham with all rRefpedf,’ 
Sir, f t , .a - . i.- . ) 
' j Tour mojl obedient and humble Serv-ant, ^ 
- , V 
Tho. Shaw. 
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.P 0 S T SC (III ? T, ' - 
SIR, 
B y a Letter juft received, I am advifed, that 
moft Parts of England have fuffered very 
much this Year by Intermitting 'Fevers ; and as we 
have a Species of the Scablofa here, which is of 
great 
