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268 ADDITION AL NOTES.SULTAN, page 188. (Chaldean and Arabie) Lord. Dut it S$€UllBte h,aV€8Dmeconnexion in its etymology with the idea of the sun.SHERIFF, page 191.J-Titie. .1Vobilis, magnificent: it is seemiJ)glyderived fwmthe word Aschrqf, the epithet given to the kings of Yemen, Syria,and Egypt.MAURITANIA, pages 195, 196.J-The generai outline of Mlil.üritanian history mayhe talœn thus: Primitive inhabitants, Homer:ites as they are called} early migl'ato~ ofthe Arabian stock, inland, while ,the Phœnieians followed the shores of the Mediterranean,and passed the Straits, still coasting. This process of thehuman occupationof the globe was followed in an early day, too; by idolatrous Arub emigrants. Nextfollowed Mussuimen in the succession of the military powers of the caliphs" oftheirlieutenants, of Edrissites, Ommiades, Moravidi, l\1oiadi,&c.It may be concluded and demonstrated indeed, too, thatEgypt principally influencedthe destinies of Mauritania. In fact, its fi1'st conquerors, of the Mussuh::nancreed, came thence, and it was governed byEdrissite deputies to the e,nd of thethird century, when this Ieading branch of Mussuimen was extirpated eve1'Y wheœwithin reach by thei1' t1'iumphant rivaIs the Ommiades. Ir} this, thil.:cl century,too,Africa, received Christianity from Egypt. by the way of Cyrene, .commonly caUeclCairoan. The contests of the two factions (forthey were noother)Qf Ommiades andEdrissitesagitated Mauritania at an early period. .ALMORAVEDI, .or MARABOUS, page 19t5.J--The wOl'din itsc1osest: signifiçatignmeans a professor of religion. Those who assumed the denomination embodied. anddesignated themseives 11rst in the East, and at a.period almost as far,ba'Ck as Islamismitself. They were always seceders at least, if not dissenters from thethis creed. Notwithstanding the presumption.of so gross,.that they hardly couId, withtruth, lay daim toany religion, for they had nothing ofil. but its fanaticism. Theirfirst doctOI', w11en they had risen into sorne degreeofnote, they received from Cairo, and in the West (Cyrene}: his name was Abdallah.The reraof their military consequence was that of the Regira 462,of our Lord 1069;when they elected for their chief in the field, Abubekr Ben Omar Lamethouni, ofSus on Segelmessa, south of the westen') Atlas. His successor Joseph Ben Texafinpushed on his.conqMests. This prince. built l\cIorocco (p1'obably on foundatiolls~uchmore ancient) about the year of our Lord 1080. This prince has beensubjected byhistorians to strange misnomers: W·ho would suspect him under the epithet Baschke-·hin? He extended his conquests over Spain, which had imposed onit then the commonname of Mogrebi (West Africa). The rule of the Moravedi extendedfora:@outeighty years through three reigns, to the year of thè Hegira 543 or 4. At the timeof this sect starting into political power, the Abassides reigned in Bagdat, and thoFathemites in Egypt.