MASSI´THOLUS
MASSI´THOLUS (
Μασσίθολος), a river of Libya, the source of which Ptolemy (
4.6.8), places in the mountain called Theon Ochema, and its “embouchure” (§ 9) in the Hesperian bay, between Hesperium Ceras and the Hypodromus of Aethiopia,
[p. 2.295]in E. long. 14° 30‘, N. lat. 6° 20‘.
It has been identified with the
Gambia, which can be no other than the ancient Stachir or Trachir; one of the rivers which flow into the Atlantic, between the
Kamaranca and the
Mesurado, is the probable representative of the Massitholus.
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E.B.J]