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Geographical Ohjervations 



Tunis. 



their Neighbours, in open War or perpetual Difputes with 

 the Chriflian Princes, but of cultivating Their Friendihips and 

 coming readily into Their Alliances. 

 The Extent of Tuti'ts, if we take in the Bled el Uad-rah, as They call the 

 Suburbs, may be three Miles or more in Circuit ; however it is 

 not fo populous as Algiers, neither are the Houfes in general 

 fo lofty and magnificent. Upon a large Pillar, brought from 

 the Neighbourhood of Carthage, and placed at prefent in one 

 of Their Bagnios^ we have the following Infcription. 



IMP. CAESAR 



DIVI NAERVAE NEPOS 



DIVI TRAIANI PARTHICI F. 



TRAIANVS HADRIANVS 



AVG. PONT. MAX. TRIB. 



POT. VII. COS. III. 



VIAM A CARTHAGINE 



THEVESTEN STRAVIT 



PER LEG. III. AVG. 



P. METILIO SECVNDO. 



LEG. AVG. PR. PR. 



Rhades, 

 Ades. 



The Two Leagues tQ the E. S. E. of Tunis, and at the like Di- 

 ftance to the S. W. of the Guletta, is the Town oi Rhades, fi- 

 tuated upon a rifing Ground betwixt the Lake oi Tunis and the 

 Sea. This is the antient Ades, where M. Regulus defeated 

 the Carthaginians ; and hard by It on the right Hand, are thole 

 Hills, v^hQXQHanno, {z^Tolyhius' obferveth,) very unskilfully 

 placed His Elephants to oppofe Him. As the Road from 

 Clypea to Tunes, lyeth, at a little Diftance from Ades, through 

 a narrow 2)^^/e, the Carthaginian General, (faving that one 

 Miftake,) could not have pitched upon a more convenient Place 

 for the Security of This Pafs; neither could the Romans have 

 carried It without Their ufual Bravery. 



I Vid. Pol)b. Hift. Lib.i. 



Not 



