Of the Weftern Province. 4. ι 



gicrs^ the other City brought by 'Dapper and later Geographers 

 into the Difpute, was formerly in the like Situation with Tn'ifs\ 

 the prelent Port having been made fmce the 7/^r^i/^j Conquefts, 

 by uniting to the Continent the liland that formerly lay be- 

 fore It. The principal Charaoteriftick therefore, whereby the 

 Antientsdefcribe Their lolCicJareay cannot properly agree with 

 any other Place than Sher-fljell. 



To the before mentioned Circumftances, we may add whatShernieii^^i 



. y -f Cxiarea each 



Trocopttis' affirmeth concernms Caiarea. viz. that It was"/ ^'''"' ^^^ 



ί . Statioijs from 



thirty good 'Days Journey from Carthage: and indeed, the ^^^2- Carthage. 

 filahs * or Caravans make, to This Day, the fame Number of 

 Stations from Tunis ( in the Neighbourhood of Carthage ) to 

 Sher-fjell. In the fame Proportion like wife that Hippo-regius 

 or Bona, which by the fame Author^ is faid to be Ten Days 

 Journey from Carthage, is, in a direol Line, CXXVIII Miles 

 from 1 1 •, Ccefarea, in being fixed at Sher-fjell, at thrice that 

 Diftance or CCCLXXXIV Miles, will be exaftly Thirty. From 

 whence it will follow, that upon a Suppofition they travel at 

 this Time in the fame manner as they antiently did : and that 

 no greater Irregularities and Windings are to be met with in 

 the Road from Sher-fjell to Bona, than are proportionably 

 met with in the Road from Thence to Carthage, there will be 

 the like Diftance betwixt Tunis and Sher-fiell, which the An- 

 tients have laid down betwixt Carthage and Cafarea. 



But It muft be confeiied, notwithftanding Thefe Arguments, τ-^^ itinerary 

 that Ttolemy '■ and the Author ^ of the Itinerary, do not vouch mV^ Ta^ie^ 

 for This Situation oi Crefarea-, neither indeed do They agree 5iiS«V' 

 thereupon between Themfelves. For the Latter fixeth It only 

 feventy one Roman Miles from Arfenaria, thereby authorizing, 

 in fome Meafure, the Opinion of Sanjon ; though, I fuppofe, 

 it hath been already proved, that Tnifs could not be the Place. 

 Ttolemy, by fi.xing It 3°. 10'. from Arfenaria, placeth It, at 

 too great a Diftance to the Eaftward, in the Situation of Al- 

 giers, as Dapper ' and others feem to have done from His Au- 



* lO* Si.ii&. The common Name in Barbary for what are called Caravans in the Levant : 

 being fitch Companies of Merchants Sec. who, for the pedter SeCttrity, travel together in Bodies. 

 The ufual Time of travelling is eight or ten Hours : from Day-break^ 'till Noon ; and fometimes to 

 A-iar [^ j.jac ^ as they call the Mid- afternoon, i Η [ Koisapeie ] iim '^ ίμ,ί^ων TUOMila. αίζάνα ίν- 

 Jfi Κ«/>;ΐ[«ίΌΐ'0' eOtp|i), tf TaJ)ii^i Ti )^ Taf lf(ctoiiit fjiAcii UrTt. r.UTOt ij (?5i 5ϊ£λάο3•)» μί}άλ» τϊ i^ imhvivSfamQr 

 ex τΛλωκ κσΛ. Procop. Bell. Vand. 1.2. c.j. 2 Βίλ/ίτάρ/οί JV «iraV [Γίλ/ίίίρ] τΙΙντ^ύ^ν iS'iuMy. it -mMr 

 7Ϊ Nnf/i/Sl' Ι^ξΛν, ίΆ θe(^<ίw^ι κ«|Μ?ίίΐ)ν, ίφικομ^^ /ii(g. }}μί(ωϊ Ιί'φ Kafy^fivQ' Λε^»»^, LS J^ Wmva lij^" K3-- 



λϊ^κ. Id. ibid. C.4. 3 Exc. p.p. D. E. 4 Exc. p.2j. A.B. y Atl. Geogr. ut fupra p.197. 



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