144 Geographical Ohfervations 



Authorities for rendering It, as I have fuppofed, to the Weft- 

 ward. Thus the Courfe of Sailing from the Straits oiGibraltar 

 to the Levant, is called going up the Mediterranean Sea ; as in 

 ieturning from thence to Gibraltar, we are faid to fail down. 

 Virgil ' likewife, in placing Italy betwixt the ^driatich and 

 Tyrrhene Seas, and fituating the Latter {infra) below It, 

 maketh ufe of infra, in the fame Senfe with Livy , to denote 

 a Pofition to the Weftward. 

 B.zertj, The t Eight Milcs to thc S. by W. of Cape Blanco, at the Bottom 

 rums^Diar-ofa large Gulph, IS U\Q City Bizert a, pleafantly fituated upon 

 ZaVto.' Exc. a Canal, betwixt an extenfive Lake and the Sea. It is about 

 c'p.Jip.'^i: a Mile in Circuit, defended by feveral Caftles and Batteries, the 

 β•ρ•ΐ)-•ΐ>. principal of which are towards the Sea. Bizerta is a Corrup- 

 tion of the Hippo Diarrhytus oxZaritus of the Antients, though 

 the prefent Inhabitants derive It from their own Language, 

 affirming It to be Ben-fjertd [^- e^■?] The Offspring of a 

 Canal or Rivulet. Though This Etymology cannot be received, 

 yet it is ingenious enough , as it in fome Meafure falleth in 

 with the Meaning of the T>iarrhytus of the Greeks, and with 

 the Aqiiartim Irrigua, as That Appellation feems to have been 

 tranilated by TUny. 

 The Lake. For thc Lakc, upon which Bizerta is fituated, hath an open 

 Communication with the Sea ; and, according to an Obferva- 

 tion of the Younger Tliny^, is either continually receiving a 

 brisk Stream from the Sea, or difcharging one into It. In the 

 hotter Seafons (nay fometimes when the Weather is calm and 

 temperate in Winter,) the fame Thenomenon that hath been 

 taken Notice ^ of betwixt the Atlantic Ocean, and the Medi- 

 terranean Sea, is to be obferved betwixt the Miditerranean 

 Sea and this Lake ; for what the Lake lofeth at thefe Times in 

 Vapour, is proportionably fupplied from the Sea ; which then 

 runneth very briskly into the Lake, to make up the Ecfuili•• 

 hrium. The like happens when the Winds are Northerly, 

 whereby a great Quantity of Water is ufually accumulated upon 

 the Southern Coaft of thefe Seas. But when the Winds are 



I An mare, (\\ioa Supra, memorem ; quodque a]luit »;/« ? Virg. Gcorg. z. I.ij8. 

 Supra i. e. ad partem fuperiorem, hoc eft orientem verfusadVenctias. wfra i.e. a parte inferi- 

 ori J hoc eft mare Tyrrhenum, quod inferum vocant, occidentcm verlus. Via. β. Afcenfti 

 & Donau Annot. in locum. 2 Eft in Africa Hipponenfts colonia, marl proxima : adjacet 

 ei navigabile ftagnum ex quo in modum fluminisseftuarium cmergir, quod vice alterna. prouc 

 asftus aut reprelfic aut impuifit, nunc infertur mari, nunc rcdditur ftagno. P//h. Ep. 33. 1. p. 

 ^dC^mnium, 3 Vid. Phil. Tcanf. N». i8j>. p. ^66. Lowtb. Ahrldg. Vol. 2. p. 108. 



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