. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. EXPEDITION OF BALBUS. MAP FOR THE EXPEDITION OF CORNELIUS BALBUS. of caravans from ]\Iorocco and from Egypt, from Soudan and fromthe shores of the Mediterranean, and is said to contain a hundredvillages. Balbus united this region to the province of Africa ; ^and at the present day may still be seen, on the frontier at thewell of Bonjem, a Roman structure built of enormous blocks ofstone, once a station of the imperial troops.* far as the shores of the Red Sea, where, if we may believe Pliny {Hist. Na
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. EXPEDITION OF BALBUS. MAP FOR THE EXPEDITION OF CORNELIUS BALBUS. of caravans from ]\Iorocco and from Egypt, from Soudan and fromthe shores of the Mediterranean, and is said to contain a hundredvillages. Balbus united this region to the province of Africa ; ^and at the present day may still be seen, on the frontier at thewell of Bonjem, a Roman structure built of enormous blocks ofstone, once a station of the imperial troops.* far as the shores of the Red Sea, where, if we may believe Pliny {Hist. Nat. ii. 67), he recog-nized fragments of Spanish vessels which had been wrecked there. 1 Florus (iv. 1-2) speaks of a successful expedition of Quirinius against the Marmaridesand the Garamantes. 2 The capital of this region, Mourzook, is thirty-five days journey from Tripoli. Cf. Hit-ter, Erdkunde, part i. 3, 980. Captain Lyon (.-1 Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa), whoset out from ^Mourzook the 9th of February, 1S20, reached the Mediterranean, between Lebidaand Mesurata, on the 18th
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