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Excerpt from The History of Etruria A very eminent scholar has desired that the authors referred to in p. 41, vol. I., of this work, as having related that Northern Africa was settled by the Phoenicians, may be named. They are chiey collected from the Universal Ant. His vols. Xvii. P. 220, &c., and vol. Xviii, p. 141, &c., and they are Aristotle de Mirabilia, Strabo iii Nonnius in Dionys. Xiii., Sallust in J ugurtha, Vell. Fatero, l. C. 2, Florus iii., Praecop de Bell. Vand., Eusebius Chron August in Epist. Ad Rom., besides the modern authorities of Huet, Bachart, and Heeren. The author who asserts that the tribes of Ait Amor and Ait Het. Are Phoenicians, is Gray Jackson, once British Consul amongst them, in his History of the Morocco and Barbary States; and he could judge as to their language not being Arabic, and as to the prefixes of O and Mac not being mispronunciations of that tongue, because he was himself a distinguished Arabic scholar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.