Massitholus

MASSI´THOLUS (Μασσίθολος), a river of Libya, the source of which Ptolemy (Ptol. 4.6.8), places in the mountain called Theon Ochema, and its embouchure( § 9) in the Hesperian bay, between Hesperium Ceras and the Hypodromus of Aethiopia, in E. long. 14° 30‘, N. lat. 6° 20‘. It has been identified with the Gambia, which can be no other than the ancient Stachir or Trachir; one of the rivers which flow into the Atlantic, between the Kamaranca and the Mesurado, is the probable representative of the Massitholus.