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PURPURA´RIAE INS islands off the coast of Mauretania, which are said to have been discovered by Juba (Plin. Nat. 6.37), who established there a manufactory of purple. If his description of them as being 625 M. P. from the Fortunate Islands be received, they cannot be, as D'Anville supposed, Lanzeroteor Fuente Ventura, the two nearest of the Canariesto the African continent. Still greater difficulties exist in supposing them to be Madeiraand Porto Santo, which are too remote from Juba's kingdom to be the seat of a manufacture of purple carried on by him. Lelewel ( Endeckungen der Carthager und Griechen, p. 140) considers them to be the islands of Lanzarote Sta Clara, with the smaller ones of Graciosaand Alegranza. (Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 229 ; Humboldt, Cosmos, vol. 2. p. 129, trans.)
[E.B.J]

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