Volume 1

Travels, or, Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant / by Thomas Shaw.

  • Thomas Shaw
Date:
1808
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    pi evinces, according* to the several petty royal- ties which, at one time or other, it was cantoned into, before and after the time of the Turkish conquests. But at present there are only three, viz. the province of Tlem-san, to the west; of 1 itterie, to the south; and of Constantina, to the east of Algiers. The dey appoints over each of these provinces a bey or viceroy, who has a despotic power within his jurisdiction; and at the appointed seasons of collecting the tribute, upon a rebellion, insurrection, or other the like occasions, is assisted with a body of troops from Algiers. Thus stands, at present, the general descrip- tion and division of this kingdom, which, upon comparison, will correspond with the Provincia Nova* or Numidiaf of the ancients. For if we bound it with the river Tusca-J, (/. e. the Zaine) to the east, it will then contain a part of the Af- rica of Pomponius Mela|| and Ptolemy §; the Numidia properly so called ^[, or the Numidia of the * Iv—T8S Nauxcixi; E; ts to wwm) Esnjyaye—ra ev t») AtZvjj txvtx, to uiv 71-i^i TJjjy Kxg%r,dovti (a <S>i xxi Apgixqv xx- XVfXiv) 7TX>IX10)I, 0TI ix 7T0\XX X.XTUgya.ro' TO §8 d)) Tu> NoitxcSivy, cti nusi e(A*jttto eTru'/cy.xv§A. Dion. Hist. Rom. 1. xliii. p. 345-6. ed. Steph. -f- Numidse possedere ea loca, qua; proxuma Carthaginem Nu- midia appellatur. Sal. Bell. .lug. Cantab. 1710. § 21. p. 2S7. Ad Mauritaniam Numidm tenent. Id. § 22. f Plin. 1. v. cap. 3, 4. |] P. Mel. Africa: Descript, c. vii. § Ptolem. Africae Sit. c. iii. Tr,j 2e —etriv, at Svo Mxo- %iTxmxt, eSvTtxooTi(>x fxev ii TifytTxrv), i^efxttn r«vr>jj Kaie-x^/inx, fxii' «y y> Atpgixyi, etrx >j Kv^rivxixri, &C. Agathem. 1. ii. cap. J. Plin. ut supra. Solin. Polyhist. c. 26. TEthic. Cosmog. Lug. Bat. p. 63. Martian Capell. de duabus Maurit. Isid. c. 5.
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