South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  Near to Fez and Marocco in the ocean
are the Canary islands, anciently called the Fortunate islands.

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Near To Fez And Marocco In The Ocean Are The Canary Islands, Anciently Called The Fortunate Islands.

To the south is the kingdom of Guinea, with Senega, Jalofo, Gambra, and many other regions of _the black Moors_, called Ethiopians or Negroes, all of which regions are watered by the river Negro, called anciently the Niger[192].

In these regions there are no cities, but only villages of low cottages made of boughs of trees, plastered over with chalk and covered with straw; and in these regions there are great deserts.

[Footnote 192: In the text the Senegal river is to be understood by the Negro, or river of the Blacks. But the ancient Niger is now well known to run eastwards in the interior of Nigritia, having no connection whatever with the Senegal or with the sea. - E.]

The kingdom of Marocco includes seven subordinate kingdoms, named Hea, Sus, Guzula, Marocco proper, Duccula, Hazchora, and Tedle. Fez has an equal number, as Fez, Temesne, Azgar, Elabath, Errif, Garet, and Elcair. Tremessan has only three, being Tremessan, Tenez, and Elgazair; all the inhabitants of all these regions being Mahometans. But all the regions of Guinea are peopled by Gentiles and idolaters, having no religion or knowledge of God except from the law of nature.

Africa, one of the three great divisions of the world known to the ancients, is separated from Asia on the east by the river Nile, and on the west from Europe by the Pillars of Hercules or the Straits of Gibraltar.

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