ι ^5 Geographical Ohfervations 



i/i.o,ni,The Four LcHgucs to the N.N.W. of the Til-loe, in the Mid- 

 Ενί?ΐ)!'Β. way nearly to Cape Blanco, we have the Cani, two little flat 

 contiguous Iflands, the Dracontia probably of Ttolemy, where 

 the Italian Row Boats lye frequently in Wait for the Tunijeens. 

 capeZibeeb,. Cape Zibeeb is the Tromontorium ^poUinis of the Antients, 

 SumApof-and makeththe weftern Point (as Cape Bon or Ras-addar, the 

 ^I'^l'c^^^'J' Tromoniorium Mercurij, at eleven Leagues Diftance, doth the 

 Eaftern) of the Sinus Alter of Zeugitana, (as Tliny Stiles it) 

 The Guifh of or the Gulph oi Tunis, according to the prefent Name. Zowa- 

 zowamoore moore, the Zimhra of our Sea Charts and the jEgimurus of the 

 2Ti>.l™Mu-Antients, lyeth betwixt Thefe Promontories^ but nearer the 

 17" B.^p.^a'. Latter, in the very Mouth of the Gulph'; which, being of a 

 E. p. 18. B. j)eptjj gqy^i tQ the Breadth , might very juftly be named by 

 j£i^.i.\.i6i.f^irgil, a long Recefs. The Ifland Gamelora is a little Way 

 £a. ^"''' from Cape Z'lheeh to the Eaft ; and four Miles to the Weft* 

 Porto Pari- Ward, within the Cape, is Torto Farina, called, from an Antient 

 Manah.r^. Salt -Work hard by It, \_Gar [;^^] el Mai I ah'] The Ca^oe of Salt, 

 RusciNo- ^y ^^^ Inhabitants. Both This Place and Bizerta have been 

 miftaken by feveral Geographers and Hiftorians' for Utica' 

 whereas It feems to be the Port, whither the Carthaginian 

 Fleet retired, the Night before They engaged with Scipio near 

 Utica. Liary calls It, from the Africans, Rufcinona \ a Word 

 doubtlefs of Thcenician Extraolion ; and as the Firft Part of 

 It very well anfwereth to the Situation ; the Latter, I prefume, 

 may be of the like Import with the prefent Name, denoting 

 probably the great Quantities of Corn and Provifions, that were 

 ihipped off from This Place. 

 The cothon. Torto Farina was fome Years ago a confiderable City , but 

 lyeth under great Difcouragements at prefent , being chiefly 

 remarkable for It's beautiful Cothon, where the Tunifeens have 

 their Navy. This Place is fafe in all Accidents of Weather, 

 and opens into a large navigable Pond , formed by the River 

 The Mc-jer- Me-jevdah, which at prefent difchargeth Itfelf this Way into 



dah, «"-Ba-^i^ ς. 



hV^'it^i. The Me-jerdah is the Bagrada fo famous in Hiftory ; parti- 

 gii.A.p.30. cuiarly for the monftrous Serpent, that is reported to have been 



I yigmurus Ininli. finum ab alto claudic, in quo Cca eft Gtrth,igo, xxx ferme millia 



ab Urbe. Liv. L. xxx. 5. 24. 2 Utica hodie Farinae Portus. Thuati. 1. 7. p. doj. Claffis 

 Carthaginhnfis fub occafum folis fegni navigationein Portum (Rtifcino}U7n Afri vocantj claiTem 

 appulere. Dv. L. xxx. ?. 10. 3 t«<3iJS ^N"l f. Promonter'ium Anmn& vd Frumenti uc 

 Ληηοηα forfan fignificct. Vid. Buxt. Lex. Rab. 



killed 



