Of the Eaftern Trovmce. pf 



• Paffing by tlie little Port Gavetio, we come to the Ras [-^^^^-J p^'^^^^ctto. 

 Hadeed, χ^ηάο,ϊ^ά ]uMy Cape FerrOy orThe IronTromontory inRasHadced. 

 the Modern Sea Charts. It is a white Precipice, twelve Leagues 

 to the Eaitward of the Seven Capes , and maketh the Eaftern 

 Extremity of the Gulf of Siora, the Smus Numidktis, as I sinus Numi- 

 have obferved It was called by the Antients. '^'''"' 



Four Leagues from the Ras Hadeed, at the half way nearly Tuckuni,r/?-f 

 to the Ras el Hamrah, is the Village oiTuckufi, (the Tacatua Εχνί^ίΐ,-.ο. 

 of the Itinerary and the Tacacc'ia '^ of Thuanus,) with a fruit- ^' '^" ^' 

 ful and pleafant Country round about It. There is a Sandy 

 Bay, with a little liland, before It ; but to the Eaftward, as far 

 as the Ras el Hamrah, the Shore is one continued Range of Rocks 

 and Precipices ; among which is the fmall Port of Tagode'iie^ 

 the Sulluco or Collops Tarvus of the Antients. 



The \^Ras el Hamrah v-^^] Red Cape, commonly called 7t/^- Ras ei Ham- 

 hra in our Sea Charts, ihould be the Hippi Tfomontor'mm of p^'ptom"' 

 Ttolemy, being a large and confpicuous Head Land, with the^'''^•'^•^• 

 Ruins of two fmall Buildings upon It. Half a League to the \ 



S. is the Mers el Berber, called, by the Europeans, Port Ge- 

 noefe, where the Malteefe and Italian Cruifers ufed frequently 

 to lye in Ambuili for the ^Igerines, 'till the Latter, a few Years 

 ago, built a fmall Fort to diftrefs Them. The Stohorrum Tro- s 

 montorium oiTiolemj will correfpond with the Southern Point L^. ibid. 

 of this Road. 



Four Miles farther, upon the Summit of an Eminence, the Bona. rBiaid 

 Algerines have a Caftle and Garrifon of three Suffrahs : and 

 upon the S. E. Declivity of the fame Hill, is the City Bona, 

 called likewife by the Moors, The [Blaid el v^-= jdneh'\ Town 

 of Jtijehs, from the Plenty of Them gathered in the Neigh- 

 bourhood. Bona, is without doubt, a Corruption of Hippo or 

 Hippona-, though we are not to look for that antient City here, 

 where the Name is preferved , but among a Heap of Ruins a 

 Mile farther to the South. Leo '^ * informeth us that Blaid el 

 Anel•, was built out of Thefe Ruins ; and It is certain, if we 

 except one or two of the Streets, made, in the Roman Manner, 

 with Caufeways, there is little befides, but what might have 



Regnum Tunetanum in quatuor Provincias tribuitur : in Conftam'mam, qiix Cullobefum, 

 Rnficadam, Tacacciam, Hipponem &c. Urbes continet. I. 7. in princip. * * Novam quan- 

 dam Urbem, in fecundo ah Hjppone Milliario ijfdem fere lapidibus extruxerunt, qui Βο)ιλ 

 civitati detrafti fuerant : nova autem Beld el Huneb, hoc eft, Ziziphonim civita^ eft appel- 

 lata, propter magnum ejus fruftus copiam, J Leo. p. 211. 



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