1 1 8 Geographical Ohfervations in the Inland Country 



Tezzoute, three Leagues nearly in Circumference. We have 

 here a great Variety of Antiquities; for befides the magnificent 

 Remains of feveral of the City Gates^ (which according to a 

 Tradition of the ^rahs, were forty in all, and that when the 

 Place was in Profperity, It could fend out of each Gate forty 

 thoufand armed^en,) we have the Seats and upper Part of 

 an Amphitheatre ; theFrontifpiece of a beautiful /<?;/ic^ Temple, 

 dedicated to Efcidapiu: ; a large oblong Chamber, with a great 

 Gate on each Side, intended perhaps for a triumphal Arch ; and 

 The [Cubb" el [^v=] ^r-rofah} Cupola of the Bride, as the 

 j4rabs call a little beautiful Maufoleum, built in the Faihion of a 

 "Dome, fupported with Corinthian Pillars. 

 ThehAuzz- Thefe and feveral other Edifices of the like Nature, fuffici- 

 βε5εΤε«Ϊ" ently demonftrate the Importance This City muft have been of 

 IT- • p•^^• j,^ former Times; which alone, without the Authority of In- 

 fcriptions, might be a prefumptive Argument for what hath 

 been already fuggefted, that Tezzoute or Lerha Wiis the 

 Lamhefe of the Antients. The particular Notice taken of 

 Lamhefe in the Itinerary^ fuppofeth It to be the moft connde- 

 rable City of That Part of the Country, where It was fituatcd: 

 and the refpedive Diftances and Directions laid down by the 

 fame Author, in conducting us thither, point out to us the Si- 

 tuation of It in general, whereby It made with Theijefle and 

 Sitifi an irregularKind of Triangle, whofe Height was to be deter- 

 mined by the Diftance of Cirta. Ttolemy indeed by placijig Sitifi 

 to the Southward of Cirta and Lambefa^ or in the Sitiia- 

 j;ion of the prefent Thevefle, giveth each of thefe Places a ?o- 

 lition very different to what They are placed in : however, by 

 informing us, that the Legio Tenia Augufta was ftationed at 

 Lamhefa, He furnifheth us with a Matter of Fad:, and fo far 

 inftrudeth us, that where we can find the Third Legion, as we 

 do here at Tezzoute, there we may look for His Lambeja^ We 

 have the following Infcriptions at This Place. 



Vpon the Fr'iz.e of the Temple of Efculapius. 



AESCVLAPIO ET SALVTI IMP. CABS. MARCVS AVRE- 

 LIVS ANTONINVS AVG. PON. MAX. 

 IMP. CAES. LVCIVS AELIVS VERVS AVG. 



DEON- 



