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 Chap. 1.] ACCOUNT OF COTJKTEIES, ETC. 379 ceeding in a westerly direction, there are forests filled with wild beasts, peculiar to the soil of Africa, as far as the river Anatis a distance of 485 miles, Lixos being distant from it 205 miles. Agrippa says, that Lixos is distant from the Straits of Gades 112 miles. After it we come to a gulf which is called the Gulf of Saguti^, a town situate on the Promontory of Mulelacha^, the rivers Subnr and Salat*, and the port of Eutubis^, distant from Lixos 213 miles We then come to the Promontory of the Sun^, the port of Bisardir", the Gietulian Autololes, the river Cosenus^, the nations of the Selatiti and the Masati, the river Masathat^, and the river Darat'^, in which crocodiles are found. After this we come to a large gulf, G16^^ miles in extent, which is enclosed by a promontory of Mount Barce^', which runs out in a westerly direction, and is called Surreutium''. Next comes the river Salsus^^, beyond which lie the Ethio- pian Perorsi, at the back of whom are the Pharusii'^, who ^ Supposed by some geographers to be the same as that now called the Ommirabili, or the Om-Rabya. This is also thouglit by some to have been the same nver as is called by Pliny, in p. 381, by the name of Asana ; but the distances do not agree. 2 Supposed by Gossehn to be the present bay of Al-cazar, on the African coast, m the Straits of Cadiz ; though Hardouin takes it to be the koXtto? f^fiTToptKO'?, or " Gulf of Commerce," of Strabo and Ptolemy. By first quoting from one, and then at a tangent from another, Pliny involves this subject in almost inextricable confusion. 3 Probably the place called Thymiaterion in the Periplus of TTanno. mentioned. ^ Cape Cantin, according to Gosseliji ; Cape Blanco, according to Marcus. 7 Probably the Safi, Af^afi, or SafTee of the present day. 8 The river Tensift, which runs close to the city of Morocco, in the interior. ^ The river Mogador of the present day. ^0 The modem river Sus, or Sous. " The learned Gosselin has aptly remarked, that this cannot be other than an error, and that "ninety-six" is the correct reading, the Gulf of Sainte-Croix being evidimtly the one here referred to. '2 Mount Barce seems to be here a name for the Atla.9, or Daran chain. ^3 Supposed by Gosselin <o be the present Ca])e Ger. ^* The river Assa, according to Gosselin. There is also a river Suae placed here in the maps. '^ These two tribes probably dwelt between the modern Capes Ger and Js'on.
 * The present Subu, and the river probably of Sallce, previously
 * The modem Mazagan, according to Gosselin.