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Mufti, called at prefent Seedy yibdel-abhufs from a Mnral•- seedy ab- 

 hitt of that Name who is there interred ^ is fituated upon a mustkexZ 

 Plain in A^iew oiDugga and Beiffbns, near the half Way be- ?'.' ic! ^'"^" 

 twixt Tefloure and A'^^ We have here the Remains of a 

 beautiful triumphal Arch ; and upon a Stone that might for- 

 merly belong to It, there is This Infcription. 



INVICTISSIMO FELICISSIMOQVE IMPERATORI 



AVGVSTO CAESARI ORBIS PACATORI 

 ----- MVSTICENSIVM DD 



ViVms Seojuefter ' hath been mifinformed in placing This 

 City near the River Bagrada-, the neareft Part of which is four 

 Leagues to the N. E. The Author of the Itinerary maketh It 

 XXXIV Roman Miles (Teiitingef?, Tables only xxxii) or an eafy 

 Days Journey from Sicca Keneria^ \ xcii from Sufetula'^^ 

 Lxxxvi from Carthage'' \ and cxcix (by Tipafa) to Cirta' : 

 All which Diftances, confidering the Roads are frequently 

 indirect, will, by taking in the feveral interjacent Places, 

 very well correfpond with the Situation of Seedy Ahdel-ahhufs. 



Keff, the Sicca or Sicca Veneria^ of the Antients, lyeth 

 about five Leagues to the S. W. o^Lorhufs, and twenty four to 

 the W. S. W. of Ttmis. It is a Frontier Town, and the Third 

 for Riches and Strength in the whole Kingdom ; though the 

 greateft Part of the Caftle was, about nine Years ago, blown up 

 in the Civil Wars. The Situation of This City, as the Name 

 \y^*] implyeth, is upon the Declivity of a Hill ; and near the 

 Centre of It, there is a plentiful Source of Water. The two 

 following Infcriptions are at prefent the only furviving Anti- 

 quities of This noted Place. 



I Bagrdda Africai juxta oppidum M«/?/, &c. 2 Exc. p. 2,-. A. 3 Ibid. E. 4 Utd. A. 

 ^ P. 26. E. 6 Summi viri Jo. Seldemis de D'l'is Syr'is Syntagma II. Cap.vii . & Ger. Jo. VoJJius 

 Thcol. Gentil. I. 2. cap. xxii. nomcn 6ia<e Vcneru erudite deducunt ex yijfyr'iortan numiiie 

 vcl KcWgiouc Succot Benot cujus iiRcg. xvii fit mentio, quafi Tabernaculie filiarum five 

 mulierum dicantnr, feucultus Feneris y^jfyru, qnera Herodotus ]. i cap. cxcix & 3ΐ)\ίίο 1. i6. 

 dcfcribunt. Cellar. Gcogr. Antiq. 1.4. cap. y. p. 117 7 Sicc£ enimFunum el\ I'ena is, in 

 quod le matrons conferebant ; atque inde procedentes ad quieitum, dotes corporis injuria 

 contrahebant, honclb nimirum tarn inhoneito vinculo conjugia jundur«. Vail. M.i.v. I. 2. 

 cap. 6. 5. I J. 



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