[Footnote 76: Many persons have expected to find in the interior of Africa, the remains of the Carthaginian nation, expelled by the Romans. Considering, however, the vast interval of time that has elapsed, we can hardly expect to find the remnant of a nation, continuing so far unmixed with the surrounding nations, as to preserve their distinction of character and language. Besides, it would really seem as if the Carthaginians themselves, (meaning the descendants of the Phœnicians,) were not to be regarded as a _nation_, so much as _bodies_ of _citizens_, inhabiting commercial towns: so that their language may never have prevailed generally over Barbary.] [Footnote 77: Mr. Browne (page 232) denominates the people of the _Greater_ Oasis, _Muggrebine_ Arabs, as well as those of the _Lesser_. It is probable then, that all the Oases are colonies of the _Tuarick_.] [Footnote 78: See the sketch opposite to page 111.] [Footnote 79: The Moors, and Arabs call the country of the Negroes, which was designed by the Romans under the name of _Nigritia_, SOUDAN. Abulfeda includes all the known part of Africa, south of the Great Desert, in BELAD SOUDAN, or the country of Soudan. (The word _Souda_ or _Suda_, in Arabic, signifies _black_.) Mr. Browne, who had visited a part of Soudan, namely _Darfoor_, agrees that Soudan corresponds to our _Nigritia_; being “a general term for the country of the Blacks.” (page 182.) In his preface, page xxv. he says that “nothing can be more vague, than the use of the word Soudan, or Sudan. Among the Egyptians and Arabs, _Ber-es-Soudan_ is the place where the caravans arrive, when they reach the first habitable part of _Dar-Fûr_: but that country seems its _eastern extremity_; for I never heard it applied to Kordofân or Sennaar. It is used equally in Dar-Fûr to express the country to the west; but on the whole, seems ordinarily applied to signify that part of the land of the Blacks nearest Egypt.” It has been seen, however, that the people of Tunis and Fezzan, reckon Houssa, that is, Kashna, and the adjacent countries, to Soudan; whence it must be extended westward to Tombuctoo, at least. Whether it ought to be extended farther west, I know not. The term, which is of Arabic origin, may possibly have in its application, a limited range, and may not embrace the entire country of the Negroes.] [Footnote 80: The following information occurs in a letter from Mr. Jackson of Santa Cruz, to Mr. Willis, dated 1st of July, 1797. “I have informed myself particularly concerning Houssa, and I find there is no such place. The environs of all great towns are called in the Arabic of this country, _El Huz_, or _Huza_.”] [Footnote 81: The reader is requested to compare the description of this Mound in Herodotus, (Euterpe, 137, 138,) with that in the Voyage on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, in the _Mémoires sur L’Egypte_, p. 215, _et seq._ See also the Geog. System of Herodotus, p. 513, for the application.]