TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 57 been noticed by Leo Africanus, and said to have inhabited that part of the desert of Libya which lies between Angela and the Nile *.

The same author adds that they are of an African race ; and we may further remark, with respect to this tribe, that the appellation of Levatm, by which it was distinguished, has been supposed b3 Major Eennell (in his illustrations of Herodotus) to have given birth to the Grecian term Libya f.

It will be observed that the suggestion of the ingenious author quoted below, with respect to the retreat of the Levatae into the interior, is confirmed by the account of Procopius ; who tells us that “ the Moors, called Levatae, dwelt in the neighbourhood of Leptis Magna :}: and we have seen that they were found in the time of Leo Africanus to have inhabited the parts between Angela and the Nile.

lYith regard to the derivation of the term Libya, suggested by Major Eennell, we may remark that Herodotus has himself derived * II resto de’ diserti di Libia, cio e di Angela fino al Nilo, e habitato d’Arabi et da un popolo detto Levata, che e pure Africano, . . . . — (5““ parte, p. 72.)

t “ The desert which separates Egypt from Lybia” (it is Major Rennell who speaks) “ is to be regarded as the proper desert of Lybia: and it maybe a question whether the tribe of Levata, although now found in the interior of the country, may not have originally inhabited the sea-coast ; and that the Greeks denominated Africa (Libya) from them. This was the part of Africa the nearest to Greece, and the first colonised by the Greeks 5 and it is a knoyvn fact, that the Adyrmachidse and Nasamones, who in the days of Herodotus, inhabited the coast, were at a succeeding period, found in the inland parts about Ammon and Angela. Mr. Park saw a wandering tribe named Lubey, whom he compares, in respect to their habits and mode of life, to gipsies®.”

f Tunc Mauri, Levata appellati, Leptim Magnam (neque enim longe absunt) cum exercitu venere, &c. — (Hist. Vandal, ut supra.)

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