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The Natural History, Book 5, chapter 1: The two Mauritanias
Pliny the Elder, 1855. Taylor and Francis.
Pliny's Mauretania: Sala on the verge of the desert, "infested by troops of elephants"; Mount Atlas, "the most fabulous locality even in Africa", said to rise from the sands; Roman generals reaching and passing it under Claudius.
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Primary text for Mount Atlas in Roman knowledge and for elephants at the edge of the desert near Sala in Mauretania.
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Pliny the Elder (1855). The Natural History, Book 5, chapter 1: The two Mauritanias. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=5:chapter=1
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