Africa being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Æthiopia and the Abyssines : with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto : with the several denominations fo their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages, their customs, modes and manners, languages, religions and inexhaustible treasure : with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter : and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds and serpents : collected and translated from most authentick authors and augmented with later observations : illustrated with notes and adorn'd with peculiar maps and proper sculptures / by John Ogilby, Esq. ...

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THis Territory being the great Syrtes, by the Arabians call'd Ceirat el Quibir, lieth about eight miles from Tripoli, by the Sea-Coast. Ptolomy names its chief Town Makomaka, or rather Calummacula. There are still three other po∣pulous Villages, call'd of old Aspis, Sakramasa, and Pyrgos Eufranta; and by the Moderns, Lard, Cedick, and Eufrata. Not far thence, on the Sea-Coast, stands Sibaka, by Ptolomy named Aporisburgh; then the Cape of Sorta, formerly the Point of Hippie; Nain, taken for Ptolomy's Philenes, and by the Roman Historiographers, the Altar of the Philenii, highly reverenced by the Carthaginians, being the Sepul∣chres of the Philenii, two Brothers, who sacrificed their lives for the safeguard of their Countrey.

The Countrey yields exceeding plenty of Dates, Olives, and Oyl. They can bring six thousand Men into the Field: are under a particular Lord, having with their Neighbors the Arabs sometimes Peace, and sometimes War, as they are necessitated. At this day they are Subjects to the Turks, though Gramay maintains they acknowledge neither Turks nor Arabians, yet follow the Mahume∣tan Platform in the way of their Worship.