of the Summer Qrcuit. 



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In a private Houfe. 



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M. TREBIVS RIB! 



ANVS SILONIANVS 



TRIBVN. POPVLI VIXIT 



ANN. LVII. 



S. H. I. 



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Tub-urho , a fniall Town inhabited by y4ndalufian Moors, Tub-urbo , 

 is fituated upon the Me-jerdah, fix Leagues to the S. E. of bum nE* 

 Matter , and at the like Diftance to the W. of Tunis. This rJ.p^euc.w! 

 ihould be the Tuhnrbum Minus of the Antients : the Majus 

 (where there feems to have been in Teutingefs Table fome re- 

 markable Temple or Edifice,) lying at too great a Diftance to 

 the Southward. Mahamet , a late Bey of This Kingdom a 

 planted a great Number and Variety of Fruit Trees in the 

 Neighbourhood of It, which He ranged in fo particular a Method, 

 that Each Species, was confined to one Grove, and thereby re- 

 moved from the 1 nfluence of Another. Thus the Orange Trees 

 were all placed by Themfelves, without the AdmiiTion of the 

 Lime or Citron ; and where we gathered the Pear or Apple, 

 we were not to exped the Peach or Apricot. In the adjacent 

 Valley, where the Me-jerdah conveyeth It's Stream, the fame 

 generous and publick fpirited Prince, ereoled, out of the Ruins 

 that were here of an antient Amphitheatre, a large mafly 

 Bridge or Damm, with proper Sluices and Floodgates, to raife 

 the River to a convenient Height , for the refreihing of His 

 Plantations. But This was too laudable an Invention to fubfift 

 long in Barhary , being at prefent intirely broken down and 

 deftroyed. Upon a Stone, near the Remains of the Amphi- 

 theatre, we have This imperfed Infcription. 



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