T RAV

HISTO:R:ICAL REFL~CTIONS. 195''()fm;i:lit~ty force,~ith therapid-springing population of this country.itwas .influêncerl, rather ,thaln ruled, by the Romans. The. VandalsQverran it. lt wasin subjection tetfle Eastern Empire, anddrained,after ,itg infutliate cOlliversion, hy the/descendants of,the Caliphs, for theirwars in Spain, during w:hiehperiod themlgratory Ar.abs establishedthemselves,iH it ;andi:t subsequentlypresented, to the world the UI~iquespectacle in politics, of a coun,try,re~absorbing,undercO'n.lpulsion, hm:own population. Can aUbe :b~:lfren here? Yet Crue it ia, that as the·l\tloors were expeUed from Spain, theinfluence. ofthiscouDtry in historythere, isof BO more intetest tban tQe part,it bore :in Sicily, to the worIdat làrge. Farotherwise, h()wev.er, isit to the morali~t,andequally tothe visitor., If,thes,e countries (Mauvitania and Tingitana let usnOwdenominate, ,ln ,order to cle:iine. ~em) were ,in:obscud~y.under Garth~ge;~ney enjoyed respite, and proba:bJypeace, under&o~all despotis.Q;l, .and,what is unhappily rare in more luminous annals, for sever~l centuries;indeed untilQu,r .,fiftll; w,hèn tlle Vandals, yet tracea~le here, bytreaty:with Valentilliall, founded ,their Christian state. Ho\V feehle ~vas then'may not beso morbidly sensiBle to the want of. Carthage,the head of tnevast tract of ihis con­'t\rient westwarlls, wasfounded by Phœnicians ;destroyed by Scipio,as ht'r parentcState had boon"'y4\.~xander; r.e-c9Ionizçd by Augustus, improv.ed by Adrian.; a Roman province, a Greek prefe~ture~.a modernruin.. (~orthy of inv~stigation, and~~ply repaying the little which verymodemilays havebestowedon if'. 'Itpresented, by"thefeebleriess'ofits IU:6t·protection, dIe/gap wherebythe A:rabs ente.red,tQ·e·se .QQuntl'ies,:.as cQnq1Jer~rs.? Jlleœigratory trit~es l:!f Mauritapia,asit1s nowoccupied by them, havillg crept in (asis,said) from the south. That Carthage, the metropolis oftbree hundred êities,founded as she was on the very verge ofthe mst establishrnenwof civic life inPtd!:Jstine, contain;'ng nn her boso~ sevenQlil~dr.edthousandillhabita,nt$, an.d flOllr:ishing duril}g.eightcenturies, must have assuredly hail a ~ext to aU-powerful influencehere. Morocco may be justly;considered one di' the fragments of anêiettt Carthage.CartlIaginian coin,described ill the Phi..losophicll.l Trallsactions(see the Abridgement, and volume the thirteenth), struck at VABAR (note,:this name), a city of Mauritania (afterwards) Cresariensis, lS tantamoUl1t to a proof on the side 0fthese spe.culatiGlls. .Mauritania maywellbe consider-ed aspolitically involved in the mtes 'of the~at .commercial city, until its IlllbyersiQnin the second,oontury before our œra.2c2