upon the Sea-Coa/i of the Summer Circuit. i f^ 



perpetually draining from the Rocks, and Seats for the weary 

 Labourer ; \^'e have little Room to doubt , ( from fuch a 

 Concurrence of Circumftances, fo exadtly correfpondin^ to the 

 Cave which >^r^i/placethfomewherein This Gulph,) kit that 

 the following Defcription is litterally true, notwithftandirig the 

 Opinion of fomeCommentators \ who have thought It fiditious. 



Εβ in feceffu longo locus ; Infula portum- 

 Ejjicit ohjeBu later um : quihus omnis al• alto 

 Frangitur, inque fmus fcindit fefe unda redu&os. 

 Hinc atqite h'tnc vafite Rupes, gemin'ique m'lnantur 

 In Coelum fcopuli : quorum fub vert ice late 

 yEquora tut a J: lent : turn Sjhis fcena corufcis 

 7)efuper, horrent'ique atrum Nemus immmet Umhra. 

 Fronte fub adverja /copulis pendentibus atrum : 

 Intus ^quie dukes ; 'vhoque fedilia faxo, 

 Njinphartim T>omus\ &c. Virg. ^n. 1. 163. 



Cape Fon, the Ras-addar of the Moors, and the Promon-Cape Bon, 

 tory oi Mercury or Hermes of the Antients, is fituated about SumTkr- 

 one League to the Northward οϊ Lowha-reah, and eleven tOp^i^'o^J^V 

 the E. S. E. οι Cape Zibeeb. I was well informed, that, fome- 

 times in fair Weather, They could difcover the Mountains of 

 Siciljf from This Place. The two Zembr^e or Zowa-moores IvqUb ζ 

 underThis Promontory ; the Smaller one not far from the Shore, 

 but the Larger is at four Leagues Diftance, in a W.N. W. Diredi- 

 on, from It. The fruitful Tra6tofLand that reacheth from hence 

 to Soljfman, is called The [-^^^] T)ackhul~\ Cornier: being cul-r/^^Daikhui. 

 tivated by the feveral Branches of the Welled Seide. 



Five Leagues to the S. by E. of Cape Bon, is t Clybea, theciybea, Tke 

 Clupea or Clj>pea of the Latins and the ASinis of the Griecians^^mx^^kxc 

 This City was built upon the fmall Promontory Taphitis \ which o/p.^;,^'^" 

 being in the Figure of a Shield ' or Hemifphere, gave Oc-^"'^• ^• 

 cafion to the Name. There is nothing ftanding of This anti- 

 entCity: for theCaftle is a modernStrudure; and what They 

 now zi^Clybea, is a miferableKnct of Hovels, at a Miles Diftance. 



I Ε ft τοπιθ.Λβ, i.e. ficlus fecundum pocticam licentiam locus. Ne autem videretur pe- 

 nitiis a vcritate difcedere, H'ifpamcnfii C.irtln^'niis portum defcripfit. Csterum hiinc locum in 

 Africa nutquam efle conftar. Serv. in loc. Fictus hie locus clt, & lublatus Ah Homer ο (Odyf. 

 13. 9j.) aliqua ex parte ad formam Ithacenfis Portus. Pomp. Sab. ibid. Mr. Addilon (p. 71. 

 of his Travels) fuppoleth that Virgil miirht have taken the Plan from the Bay of Naples. 

 2 Exc. p. 7• F. 



3 In Chpc'i fpeciem curvatis turribus Afp'is. Sil. Ital. L. 3. 1. 243. 



Rr X A 



owa- 

 moores. 



