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free to^vns of Leptis\ Admmetiim*, Euspina', and Thapsus* ; 

 and then TlienaB*, Macomades'', Tacape% and ISabrata^ ^vilic'h 

 touches on the Lesser S\Ttis ; to which spot, from the 

 Ampsaga, the length of Numidia and Africa is 580 miles, 

 and the breadth, so far as it has been ascertained, 200. 

 That portion which we have called Africa is divided into 

 two provinces, the Old and the New'; these are separated 

 by a dvke wliicli was made by order of the second Scipio 

 Afi'icanus^ and the kings'", and extended to Thenss, which 

 town is distant from Carthage 216 miles. 



CHAP. 4. THE STRTES. 



A third Gulf is divided into two smaller ones, those of 

 the two Syrtes'\ which are rendered perilous by the shallows 



^ Tlie modem Lempta occupies its site. 



2 Originally a Phoenician colony, older than Carthage. It was the 

 capital of Byzacium, and stood within the southern extremity of. the 

 Sinus NeapoUtanus or Gulf of Haramamet. Ti-ajan made it a colony, 

 under the high-sounding name, as we gather from inscriptions, of Colonia 

 Concordia Uljna Trajana Augusta Frugifera Hadrumetana, or, as set 

 forth on coins, Colonia Concordia Julia Hadrumetana Pia. The epithet 

 Frugifera refers to the fact that it was one of the chief sea-ports for tlie 

 corn-producing country of Byzacium. It Avas destroyed by the Vandals, 

 but restored by the Emperor Justinian under the name of Justiniana or 

 Justinianopohs. The modem Sousa stands on its site ; and but sUght 

 traces of the ancient city are to be found. 



3 Situate hi the vicinity of the modern Monastir. 



* Shaw discovered its ruins at the modern town of Demas. 



* Now Taineli, accorduig to D'Anville. This place formed the boun- 

 dary between the proconsular provuice of Africa and the territory of tlie 

 Numidian king Masinissa and his descendants. 



^ The present Mahometa, accorduig to Marcus, El Malires according 

 to D'Anville. 



' Now Cabes, according to D'Anville, givmg name to the Gulf of 

 Cabes. INIarcus calls it Gaps. 



^ Now Tripoli "S'^eccliio ; also called Sabart according to D'Anville. 



' Scipio yEmilianus, the son-in-law of yEmilius Paiilus. 



'^ Micipsa, tlie son of IVIasinissa, and liis two legitimate brethren. 

 Scipio having been left by Masinissa executor of his will, the sovi-reign 

 power was divided by liim between Mici])sji and his two brethren Gidussa 

 and Mastanabal. On this occasion also he sejiaratcd Nuniidiu from 

 Zeugitana and Byzacium, by a long dyke dra\%ni from Thenjr, due south, 

 to the borders of the Great Desert, and thence in a north-westerly direc- 

 tion to the river Tiisca. 



'1 The SjTtes or 'Quicksands' are now called, the Lesser Syrtes the 



