Onasander Posted January 12, 2015 Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 I've quickly figured out there is no site that tried to trace his African Expedition, I'm going to try to find correspondence between modern sites with similar terrain and features with this description below. I encourage a critique, as I can get this wrong. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauretania_Tingitana Pliny the Elder described in some detail the area south of the Atlas Mountains, when Gaius Suetonius Paulinus undertook a military expedition in 41: Suetonius Paulinus, whom we have seen Consul in our own time, was the first Roman general who advanced a distance of some miles beyond Mount Atlas. He has given us the same information as we have received from other sources with reference to the extraordinary height of this mountain, and at the same time he has stated that all the lower parts about the foot of it are covered with dense and lofty forests composed of trees of species hitherto unknown. The height of these trees, he says, is remarkable; the trunks are without knots, and of a smooth and glossy surface; the foliage is like that of the cypress, and besides sending forth a powerful odour, they are covered with a flossy down, from which, by the aid of art, a fine cloth might easily be manufactured, similar to the textures made from the produce of the silk-worm. He informs us that the summit of this mountain is covered with snow even in summer, and says that having arrived there after a march of ten days, he proceeded some distance beyond it as far as a river which bears the name of Ger (a northern affluent of the Niger river?); the road being through deserts covered with a black sand, from which rocks that bore the appearance of having been exposed to the action of fire, projected every here and there; localities rendered quite uninhabitable by the intensity of the heat, as he himself experienced, although it was in the winter season that he visited them.[5] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 http://www.historiaviva.org/canarias/canarii_ing.shtml I can't right now figure out, qithin the four Atlas Mountain chains, which mount would be mount atlas. Internet is silent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v_Cvtya7o5E/T_q-ob0S-hI/AAAAAAAACuM/I2GtwK5Skjo/s280/canarii.jpg Map listing site of the canarii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted January 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2015 https://books.google.com/books?id=niA7AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=black+sand+desert+river+ger&source=bl&ots=LPWDigeJft&sig=z4tXx34sSevI2aJS_aK-nKIEEw0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TgK0VJO9Aov5yQT3zoDACQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBg Lower portion deals with this puzzle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onasander Posted January 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2015 find a species of that description. Likewise, I found a rocks, but then again, very slim google pickings to begin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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