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I5'2 Geographical Ohfer'vations 



- - - - §lua. dev'i&te Carthaginis arces 

 Trocuhuere, jacentque, infauflo in littore^ turres 

 B/Oerfa ; quantum ilia metus, quatitum ilia laborum 

 Urhs dedit infultans Latio ζ^ Laurentibus arms ; 

 Nunc pajfiniy "vix relliquias ^vix nomina fervans^ 

 Ohruiiur, propriis non agnofcenda ruiiiis. ^c. 



Solatia fail 



Carthago Mariufque ' tulit, pariterque jacefites 

 Igno'vere Dies Lucan. de Bell. Civ. L. 1. 1. 91. 



Carthage, a- TUny ' feeiiis to make the antient Carthage much bigger^ than 

 Ari/M>/c^-when It was a Ro7nan Colony; which, according to what 

 Lhy ^ informeth us, was twenty three Miles in Circuit. Strabo 

 circumfcribeth the Teninfula, upon which Carthage was built, 

 with cccLX Furlongs, or forty five Miles, but doth not affign 

 any Number for the Extent of the City. According to an 

 Eilimate made upon the Spot, I judge the Teninjula to be 

 about thirty Miles round, and that the City may have taken 

 up near half that Space ; and more, I prefume. It could never 

 lay Claim to. For Livy * telleth us, that Carthage was twelve 

 Miles nearly from Tunes ; which is the Diftance that ilill 

 fubfifts betwixt This City, and a Fragment (we meet with near 

 the greater Cifterns) of the old Wall of Carthage, And as there 

 arefeveral Salt Pits immediately under This Wall, which reach 

 as far as the S. E. Shore, Carthage could not have extended 

 any farther to the W. or S. unlefs thefe Pits, (which cannot well 

 be fuppofed,) were received within the City. Nay, liTolyh'ms ' is 

 to be credited, who maketh the Diftance betwixt Tunes and 

 Carthage fifteen Miles, the Boundary This Way will be thrown 

 farther backward, and we may be induced to fufped, that the 

 Wall I have mentioned, was erected by the Romans, and took in 

 a greater Space of the Teninjula, than might be the y4rea of 

 the antient City. A large Morafs, that was formerly the Port, 

 continues to be the fame Limit, It always was, to the N. and N. W. 



I Mauus curfum in Afncmi direxit, inopemque vltam in Tugurlo ruinarum Carthagini- 

 cwjittw toleravit : cum M<in«i afpiciens Canhag'inem, ilia intuensAi^Ww?;;, alter alteri ροίΓοηε 

 elTe folatio. Veil. Paterc. 2 Co/okj^i Carthago Magn^ i« vr/?i^yV Carthaginis. £.v<:. p. 22. A. 

 3 Carthago in circuitu viginti tria millia pafTus patens. Liv. Epit. L. ji. 4 Scipio — in 

 Cartbaginem intcntus occupat relidum fuga cuftodum Tuncta (abed ab Curtbagnic duodccim 

 millia ferme paiTuum) locus quum operibus, turn fuapte natura tutus, & qui nb Cartb/ig'ine 

 confpici & prebere ipfe profpedum quum adUrbem, tum ad circumfufum mare urbi poirec. 

 Id. 1.30. i.p, y ο Ίΰνκί Λτήχ» pC <} K.af;)ffi<>r& (^f ii^*'^y f^Mft ptJi^f. Polyl). I.14. 



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