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cious than the Great Tort : and^ according to the Liberty of 

 Expreffion in the Gentile Ages, might much better deferve the 

 Epithet of 'Dhine, than the Ports, I have mentioned, at Ras 

 el Harfj-fa. Ttolemy we are fure, fituates His Deorum Torti^sThe Porms 

 betwixt ^liij,za and Arjenaria, which, as I have before obferved. 



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can be no other than This, provided Geeza or Warran is the 

 antient ^iza, as Arzew is, without Doubt, the antient Arje- 

 naria. But we are to take Notice at the fame Time, that Our 

 Author placeth His T)eorum Tortus id. only to the Eaft, and 

 15•'. to the South of i^^^; and with refpeft toArfenaria, He 

 fituateth It 10. to the Weft, and only 5•'. to the South ; a Poli- 

 tion altogether imaginary, and in no Manner correfponding with 

 any of the Harbours or Windings of the adjacent Parts of the 

 Sea-Coaft. 



t Arzew y the antient Arfenaria, is at the Diftance of three Arzew, Tke 

 Roman Miles from the Port, as Tliny placeth It. The Coun- κΓαΙ'Ιχ.' 

 try, for fome Miles behind It, is made up of rich champain^'"'" ^^"^"^' 

 Ground : but we look down upon the Sea, from fome Precipices^ 

 which, in That Direolion, muft have been always a natural Safe- 

 guard to the City. The Water made ufe of by the Inhabitants 

 at prefent, lieth lower than the Sea ; a Circumftance, that will 

 perhaps account for the Brackiihnefs of It. TJiey draw It, be- 

 low the Precipices, from a Number of Wells, which, by the 

 Mafonry, appear to be as old as the City. Yet They have a 

 Tradition that Their PredeceiTors were better fupplied,in having 

 Water conveyed to Them by an Aquedud. Some of the 

 Arches of It were ihewn me, as a Proof of This Tradition- 

 yet, asThefe want the Channel, and no farther Traces of Them 

 appear in the Way to the Sigg and the Taleelet, the only Ri- 

 vers that could fiirniih the Water ; we may imagine Them ra- 

 ther to have been a Part of fome other Edifice: but, of what 

 Kind,This fmall Fragment is not fufficient to inftruol us. How- :.-\ 



ever^ in fome Meafure to fupply' the Want of fuch a Cortve- 

 niency, the Founders have made the ufual Proviiion for the' 

 colleding of Rain Water, (inferiour indeed to what the former 

 might have produced, ) by building the whole City upon Ci- 

 fterns. Thefe ftill fubfift, but are converted to a different Ufe; ^ 

 ferving the Inhabitants for fo many Hovels td dwellin: There' 

 are feveral Capitals, Bafes, Shafts of Pillars, and other antient 

 Materials, that lye fcattered among the Ruins, Awellfiniihed 



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