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TRAVELS IN APRIüA.they seem to he originally indigenous, from the best information now tobe obtained of these countries, that of the poets.For although thesepersonages may shelter themseIves. underlthe privilege of " Quis vatès.ad vera vocat ?"he had, so far as it goes.still it is the ruIe of evidence to take the best that canAnd until historians, with more pretension,ccease to be poetieal, thereseems no reason· why poets should not beadmitted historieal.:Prpll1 every local and moral circumstance, they:re the people of whom (Psylli-Shellu?»)t is said" . • . . .• immunes mixti serpentibus eS$etlt.• . .• • • a srevo serpentum innoxi l1 morsu,A[armaridœ Psylli: par lîngua potentibus hel'bis.. . .• veI cantu cessante potest expurgat cantu .... . .. lttsit serpentilms infans l)~stis excàntata perit:'This is tolerably descriptive of the "Gens unica terris," the Nasamones:or serpent-worshi ppers (note the aceounts of the fàne of the Libyal1'Ammon). Nass, in Punie, signifies a serpent. These Marmaridœ werea widely-diffused nation, wide as their own plains eould adillit,spirit of dissertation wishtoJoUow, them.. '.l'he' radicals of names here'present themselves to thé.!Uea.been already mentîoned'*'.'Tu Maroc on the Nforbeya river has,'" Digression, discussion, and dissertation are'ground which the tFaveller's foot is forbidden totread on. As he is hound to adflere to his text, the Hne of demarcation may be, perhaps, preservedaccording to the due laws of wat, when these matters are; cireumscJ;ibed in ,a note. Alittleroam­, ing may be allowed, as peoplê cannot.be said to \\Tander whilsp the.y keep within limits. Thus"then, in the native pronuncilltion of the present day, the word issounded Marogsh-r-signifying(the of old) Mâuritania, thâtèountrys(i)ju$tly celebratedbythe ancients for its fertility.~, Ubere vix glebre supeiat cessantibusl;\ustfiS,,"Quum medium nubes Boreâ cogente sub axemEffusis magnum Libyre tulit imbdbu~··annuln."It isimpossible to describe the soWalld climate llloré>prècisely. Ifow 'êorisummate.Wl1s tfte~l:lôw''';lcdgc of the aI1éients 1 How"moqetn investigation lags behind them !" fu~ther ~'V~4!t'~titlle· itself". ,.. . : ".' :. '.