24 Geographical Ohjervations upon the Sea-Coafi 



only be uine, inftead of twenty three, as They are recorded in 

 the Itinerary. 

 Th, Porus With Resard to the Tortus Dhim^ there are other DifRcul- 



Divini diffe- ο . •« i • i r»i i • 



rcnr/y placed tics. For, if thc Attticttts thereby intend one rlace only, it 

 Ptolemy. Will thcrt bc impoifible to reconcile the contrary situations, 

 that Strabo and Ttolemy have given It, with Refpedl to the 

 Great Tort. And, if They are in the Order of the Itinerary , 

 and more than One, then, as They can be no other, than the 

 two Bays at the Ras el Harfi~fa, fo, if the Calculation is begun 

 even from the weitermoft of Them, the Diftance, we find, of 

 twenty Miles only, between That and the Great Tort, will fall 

 vaftly fliort of the thirty fix allowed for It in the Itinerary. 

 Though indeed, as Cellarius! hath in forae Meafure obferved 

 before me, Straho in placing His Tortus Deorum fix hundred 

 Furlongs to the Eaftward of the City Siga, fixes the Pofition 

 of It near This Place. 

 r/i-iPoRTus But, notwithftanding what is here laid down by 5/ΓΛ^<?; and 

 /i^/r^/y that Veflels of all Kinds may lye covered, in one or other of 

 T?s'M'°''Thefe Ports, from the N.W. and N.E. Winds, (the fierceft in- 

 "iheVorZj deed, and the moft common upon Thefe Seas) yet unlefs the 

 Arfenaria. 'pgj.j-j^g 'Di^^^i ^ Dcorum wcrc impofed accidentally, ( upon 

 fome fuch like Occafion, we will fuppofe, as the late fortunate 

 Defcent oi the Spaniards) rather than in Confideration of Their 

 Goodnefs and Capacity •, fuch lofty Names plead ftrongly againft 

 us, and fliould induce us to believe the Antients intended fome 

 other Stations more fafe and commodious. May we not then 

 take the Tortm Dimni (provided they were Two) to be only 

 other Names for the Torttis Magmas, and the Port of arfe- 

 naria ? This, for the ®t3» \i^lu> of Ttolemy ; the Other, as lying 

 more to the Weft ward, for the ©««» λ»/*ία-' οί Straho} Their re- 

 fpeolive Situations anfvver well enough to fuch Pofitions, and 

 the Harbours Themfelves bid the faireft for fuch high Appel- 

 lations. 



Five Miles to the S.E. of the Great Tort, and fifty four to 

 the N.N. E. oiTlemJan \ is Warran ?, commonly called Or an, ζ 



1 Qnod ad Dh'inos Tortus attinct, valdc vcreor, ne fint quern Ptolemaus Deorum portum 

 adpcllat. Nam & Strabo Deorum Partus meminit fexcentis Stadiis i iiiga diftantis, qui fitus 

 nugis cum divinis It'merArtt Portubus convenit, quam cum Deorum portu PtoUniii. Unde 

 judicarc poifis, nomina hxc cundem portum lignificaiTe, ab alterutro autcm audore tuifle 

 tranfpofita, ut alter circa Pcrtiim magnum, alter ultra ilium locavcrit. Cell. Geogr. Antiq. 

 1.4. c.(i. 2 W^4/)dr4n abeft i 7>/in/ino odoginta milliaria. yi6«//. ui fupra. Orania iiTelenfwe 

 centum & quadraginta diftat milliaria. J. Leo. p. 198. 3 Oranum varus nominibus vocatur 



Warran or 

 Oran. 



