upon the Sea-Coafl of the Summer Circuit. i si 



after Scipio had blocked up the old ; and might be the fame that 

 was called the Mandracium ' in the Time of Trocopins. 



The sreateft Part oi Carthage hath been built upon three r/ji- situauon 



• i~ ■ • •τ-~Ί • Λ-τΊ r 1 • 1 "''■'^ Hums of 



Hills, fomewhat inferiour m Elevation to Thole upon which Carthage. 

 Rome was eredled. Upon That which overlooketh the S. E. 

 Shore, there is the ^rea of a fpacious Room, with fevcral 

 fmaller ones hard by It. Some of Them have had teiTellatcd 

 Pavements; but neither the Defign nor the Materials are 

 worthy of our Notice. The Bjyrja^ Iprefume, had formerly r/;^ By m. 

 This Situation. In rowing along the Sea Shore, the common 

 Sewers difcover Themfclves in feveral Places; which, beingT'^'' ""'''"'" 



' ^ ο Sewers. 



well built and cemented at firil: , Time hath not in the leaft 

 injured or impaired. The Cifterns are other Struclures, which '^''' '^'β'""- 

 have fubmitted the leaft to the general Ruin of This City. Be- 

 fides Thofe appertaining to particular Houfes, there were two 

 Sets belonging to the Publick; the greater whereof, which 

 was the grand Rejewok for the Aquedudl , lay near the 

 vveftern Wall of the City, and confifted of more than twenty 

 contiguous Cifterns, each of them about a hundred Foot long, 

 and thirty broad. Thelefler is in a higher Situation, near the 

 Cothon \ having been contrived to colk Qi the Rain Water which 

 fell upon the Top of It, and upon fome adjacent Pavements, 

 made for that Purpofe. This might be repaired with little Ex- 

 pence; thefmall earthen Pipes, through which the Rain Water 

 was conduiited, wanting only to be cleanfed. 



Befides Thefe , there are no other Tokens left us of the fcw Anti^ui- 

 Grandeur and Magnificence of This antient City, and Rival of Siag? ^^^' 

 Rome: we meet with no triumphal Arch, or fumptuous Piece 

 of Architefture ; no Granite Pillars, or curious Entablatures; 

 but the broken Walls and Stru6tures that remain to this Day, 

 are either built in the Gothick Manner, or according to That 

 of the later Inhabitants. The following Lines, preferved by 

 M'. Balzac \ very juftly deicribe the prefent Condition of This 

 Place. 



I Τι)!" if 70 Mcti'i/)icix(oi' itjvSbv τ if,\i<nviv 'ύηΛ'ΛΚ^^πα r^a'^'iVoV i/^.af 75 ly tS τΛνπ ςύλω τ A;,«5|U» tASyor 

 xy/iKMovlf). ].T. c. 20. 2 Exc. p. 7. D. Fabcllam dc corio in tcnuiifimas partes dillecto, 

 undc Bjrfx fadum fit nomen (Liv. I.34. i- όι. I'irg. JEu.i. 371 &c.) dodi piidem explofe- 

 runt, & monuei-unt a Gritc'is hufmv dici pro ΠΊϊ^ Bofr.i, ad vitandam )i«xo?ii>v(af ; quia Gr<£C£ 

 Lingux' genius non patitur ut S & R coininucntur. Talc ahm ncmiis pro X^l^N .;/?''• Bofra 

 Hcbr.^is eft miinimentum, a verbo 1i"I3 miinirc. Bocb. Chan. l.i. cap. 24. 3 In HiiDiJftrtat. 

 XXV. Chreftiemie & morale : in Imitation of the xv Canto οΠ'φ'ί Gkruf>uemme. 



G'lace I' aha Cartago, e a pena i fegni 



De I'aUc file rit'uie Η lido fcrba. &c. 



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