A portentous though frequent, mistake has
been the confounding, from a slight similitude of name, the
Cyrene of the Greeks and the Cairoan of the
Arabs, two cities which are separated by an interval of a
thousand miles along the sea-coast. The great Thuanus has not
escaped this fault, the less excusable as it is connected
with a formal and elaborate description of Africa
(Historiar. l. vii. c 2, in tom. i. p. 240, edit. Buckley).