The Ruins of 

 a Triumpkal 

 Arck, 



128 Geographical Ohfervations in the Inland Country 



to all Appearance, It feems to be an extraordinary Provifion 

 of Nature for the AdmiiTion of This River, which muft have 

 otherwife formed a prodigious Lake, and thereby laid a great 

 Part of the neighbouring Country under Water, before It could 

 have found out any other Way to the Sea. 



Among the Ruins to the S. W. of the Bridge, upon the 

 narrow Strip of Land juft now defcribed, we have the greateft 

 Part of a triumphal Arch, called The \CaJJir Goulah'] Caflle 

 (as They interpret It) of the Giant, confifting of three Arches ; 

 the middlemoft whereof is the moft fpacious. All the Mould- 

 ings and Frizes are curiouily embellifhed with the Figures of 

 Flowers, Battle Axes, and other Ornaments. The Corinthian 

 Pilaiters, ereoted on each fide of the grand Arch, are pannelled, 

 like the fide Pofts of the Gates of the City, in a Οιιβο, as far as 

 I have obferved , peculiar to Cirta ; but the Pillars of the 

 fame Order, which fupported the Pediment, are broken down 

 and defaced. 



Without the Precinds of the City, under the great Preci- 

 pice, we meet with the following fepulchral Infcriptions. The 

 firil of Them, which is upon a Cippus, with the Figure of a 

 loaded Ox in Baffb Relievo above It, and of a Crab below It, 

 maketh one of the Steps, as we defcend to the lukewarm Springs 

 of the Marah-hutt Seedy Meemon, who lyeth there interred. 



hifcriptions ^ 

 &c. leloTPthe 

 Precipce. 



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