Of the Simmer Circuit. 1 8 y 



bleaching of Linnen ; great Quantities of Both being daily 

 brought hither for that Purpofe, from all Parts of the Kingdom. 

 It hath been already obferved that the Stream, employed in 

 this Service at prefent, was formerly conveyed to Carthage \ 

 and that a Temple, the Ruins of which continue to this Day, 

 was built over the Fountain. Upon an antient Gate of this 

 City, which looks towards the S. E. there is the Device of a 

 RanVs Head, armed, with Auxilio infcribed below It; where- 

 by It may be prefumed, that This City was formerly under 

 the immediate Influence and Protection οϊ Jupiter y4mmon\ 



If we could be aiTured of having the leaft Traces of ^^f^^m zeugitana 



. . r t - probably fo 



or Zeitgitana in the prefent Name of This City or ^ίο>\χνίΐ2Ϊ\χ\, caiied from 

 there would be no fmall Reafon to conclude, that the Name oitain. 

 This Province was denominated from It. So/mus {cQms to ad-^'^'-P•^^•^• 

 vance fomething in Favour of This Suppofition, by acquainting 

 us, th^t Africa commenced {a pede^ Zetigitano) from the Foot, 

 as I would interpret It, of the Mountain Zow-waan ; or, in 

 other Words, that Africa was that Space of Ground which lay 

 to the Northward of the Parallel of This Mountain. It is 

 certain, we have a Profpeol of the greateftPart of the Kingdom 

 from This Eminence ; which might, in all probability, be the 

 iiime Place from whence ^gathocles ' was entertained withaView 

 both of the Country of the ^drumetines and Carthaginians. The 

 Zygantes like wife oi Herodotus feem to have had This Situation. ^*^• ρ•3• a. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the mofi remarkable Places upon the Sea-Coafl of the 

 antient Bizacium, or Winter Circuit. 



THE feveral Parts which I have feen of This Province, ^/^^^^«^'■''/ 

 fall vaftly ihort, in Fertility, of the Charader, which hath^'-^ "i^P^r " 

 been attributed to It by the Antients. For Thofe that are adja- *^"""'* 

 cent to the Sea Coaft, are generally of a dry fandy Nature, with 

 no great Depth of Soil in the very beft Portion of them. Nei- 



I The Imzgc o£ Jupiter Ammon h c;il\cd Κ}ΐα•πξίσζύ7π>ν by Herodotus. 1.2.5.42. From whence 

 the Poet, 



Tortis cornibtis Ammon. Luc. 1. 9. 1. yip. 

 In one of the Couis of Galienus, and Salonmis, there is a Ram with this Legend, Jo 7 1 

 CuNSERVATORi. 2 uijiti μ y) AejiiSo/ ύτταξίίαζ, Mfuifatf 3 7» axfdL T^f ojic. Strab. Geogr. 1. lO. 

 p. 32(5. 3 Α>Λθ5χλιΐί ΐΒζβ!Γί;Κ^ι iTn -πίΛ τίττον opf/voc, o3tv ojeS^ Sutiaiiv "tw αύην -ώτό i Τ AJ)if|W*i77i'i3» <£jtf 

 τ}ί ^ofj^Ji/tay τ Τω1»ιτα -iroKtofnimy χω'ρβί. Qlg^^ ^JC^ Ljb. 20. p. 741. 



A a a ther 



