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Preface
XI
Hadrian, Apuleius of Madaura, Ptolemy the renowned geo-
grapher of Alexandria, Dion Cassius the Bithynian, and
Aurelius Victor, a Roman biographer of the fourth century
iln later times we have Procopius, the Greek secretary attached
to the army of Belisarius ; Leo Africanus, an Arab of Granada
in the sixteenth century ; and numerous African authors, among
jvvhom El-Bekri and El-Edrisi, who flourished in the eleventh
and twelfth centuries, are the most conspicuous. Then, after a
long interval, we have a succession of European travellers,
whose 'voluminous notes paved the way for more systematic
research. The most noticeable are Shaw, an Oxford divine ;
Peysonnel, a professor of botany; Bruce, British consul at
Algiers ; and Sir Grenville Temple, a cavalry officer. It seems
invidious to select a few names in more recent times where so
many are worthy of recognition, but the labours of those who
have best served the cause of archaeology, and whose names are
inseparably associated with the literature and monumental
(remains of North Africa, cannot be passed over. The con-
tributions of Berbrugger, De la Mare, Guerin, Ravoisie, Pellissier,
Cherbonneau, Leon Renier, and Charles Tissot in the last
century, supplemented in our own days by a long array of
Valuable notes by our late Consul-General Sir Lambert Playfair,
have added largely to our knowledge of the topography and
antiquities of the country. To De la Mare we are indebted
for an illustrated, though unfortunately incomplete, work on
monumental Algeria ; to Ravoisie we owe some careful mea-
surements and restorations (on paper) of the principal re-
mains in the northern regions ; and to Renier, Wilmanns, and
others a wealth of deciphered inscriptions which constitute in
themselves a fair outline of many centuries of national life in
this great Roman colony. The researches also of officers
attached to the ' Bureau Arabe,' as well as the expert know-
ledge of many curators of local museums, have filled up
numerous gaps in the general history of Roman Africa. And
in the present generation the establishment of a ' Commission
XI
Hadrian, Apuleius of Madaura, Ptolemy the renowned geo-
grapher of Alexandria, Dion Cassius the Bithynian, and
Aurelius Victor, a Roman biographer of the fourth century
iln later times we have Procopius, the Greek secretary attached
to the army of Belisarius ; Leo Africanus, an Arab of Granada
in the sixteenth century ; and numerous African authors, among
jvvhom El-Bekri and El-Edrisi, who flourished in the eleventh
and twelfth centuries, are the most conspicuous. Then, after a
long interval, we have a succession of European travellers,
whose 'voluminous notes paved the way for more systematic
research. The most noticeable are Shaw, an Oxford divine ;
Peysonnel, a professor of botany; Bruce, British consul at
Algiers ; and Sir Grenville Temple, a cavalry officer. It seems
invidious to select a few names in more recent times where so
many are worthy of recognition, but the labours of those who
have best served the cause of archaeology, and whose names are
inseparably associated with the literature and monumental
(remains of North Africa, cannot be passed over. The con-
tributions of Berbrugger, De la Mare, Guerin, Ravoisie, Pellissier,
Cherbonneau, Leon Renier, and Charles Tissot in the last
century, supplemented in our own days by a long array of
Valuable notes by our late Consul-General Sir Lambert Playfair,
have added largely to our knowledge of the topography and
antiquities of the country. To De la Mare we are indebted
for an illustrated, though unfortunately incomplete, work on
monumental Algeria ; to Ravoisie we owe some careful mea-
surements and restorations (on paper) of the principal re-
mains in the northern regions ; and to Renier, Wilmanns, and
others a wealth of deciphered inscriptions which constitute in
themselves a fair outline of many centuries of national life in
this great Roman colony. The researches also of officers
attached to the ' Bureau Arabe,' as well as the expert know-
ledge of many curators of local museums, have filled up
numerous gaps in the general history of Roman Africa. And
in the present generation the establishment of a ' Commission