I f^ Geographical OhferOations 



RORlSir TOTIVSQVE DIVINAE DOMVS EIVS CIVITAS ZVCCHARA 



FECIT ET DEDICAVIT. 



The A,.th},:ky Thc Aqucduft appears to be of much greater Antiquity than 



iif'^^'^'the Temple, having been probably a Work of the Carthagi- 

 nians ; for. It will be difficult to conceive, how Carthage could 

 well fubfiil without fuch a Convenience. Belides the publick 

 Refer'voirs I have mentioned, there hath been great Proviiion 

 indeed made to receive the rain Water, by building all or moft 

 of their Houfes upon Cifterns. At Saka-rah likewife, whither 

 the Suburbs may be fuppofed to have extended, there is, for 

 the Space of three Miles, a Continuation of Channels and 

 Cifterns, contrived, as It appears, by omitting here and there 

 a Brick in the lower Part of their Walls, to admit Water by 

 Percolation ; a Method we find alfo made ufe of at Gihr altar. 

 It will be difficult to determine, what extraordinary Supplies 

 thefe Cifterns might have afforded ; however. It is very cer- 

 tain, that at Algiers, a City built with the fame Conveniences 

 as Carthage, the Rain Water will rarely fupply the neceffary 

 Expences of a Family : much lefs, when fuch a Multitude of 

 Elephants, Horfes and other Animals, as w^ere conftantly kept 

 at Carthage, are to be added to the Account. 



The Guietta. Eight Milcs to the W. S. W. of Seedy Boo-feide , the Cape 

 Carthage of our Sea Charts, we have the Guietta ; for fo the 

 Italians feem to have tranflated The \Halch \y-'^^'\ el Wed~\ 

 Throat of the River, as the Inhabitants call the little Channel 

 of Communication betwixt the Lake of Tunis and the Sea. 

 The Tunifeens have, on each Side of this Channel, a tolerable 

 good Caftle, contrived as well for the Security of this narrow 

 Paifage, as of the Road to the E. and S. E. Within the Lake 

 likewife, half a League from Tunis, and about two from the 

 Guietta, there is another Caftle , built upon a fmall Ifland ; 

 which, from the little Danger there is of being attacked that 

 Way by Sea, hath been for a long Time negleded. The Place 

 continueth in the fame dirty State and Condition, that It ap- 

 pears to have been in, in the Time oi^bulfeda \ 



The Lake. This Lake was formerly a deep and capacious Port \ big enough 

 to take in a large Navy ; but at prefent, by receiving all the 



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