J 88 Geographical Ohfervations 



long Journies, the Days at This Time confifting only of nine or 

 ten Hours. Nay farther, as Rufpina lay within fix Miles of 

 Leptis ; the firft Days March ( upon a Suppofition that Ha- 

 mam-et was the Adrumetum^ muft have been near feventy 

 Miles; which feems to be impoifiblc. There is no Room then 

 to imagine that Hamam-et could have been the antient Adru- 

 metum. 

 Monaiieer ΜοηαίΙββγ is indeed built upon a Promontory, and fo far 



too near ' , . . ^, ^ 



Leptis to be agreeth with the Situation of Adrumetum ; but then, beildes 



the Adrume- ^ ^ . 



turn. feveral other Reafons to the contrary. It is too near Leptts 



and the Station of Cafafs Navy, to be fo much as thought of. 

 Upon thefe feveral Confiderations therefore, HerMa is the on- 

 ly Place, wherewith the feveral geographical Circumftances, 

 that are recorded of Adrumetum^ will exactly agree. 

 Adrumetum Anothcr Ai'gumcnt, in Favour of This Suppofition, may be 

 changed ifs drawn from the Alteration that may be prefumed to have been 

 more than once made in the Name, For as It was ufual, upon 

 feveral Occafions, both with the Greeks and Romans, to change 

 the old Names of their Cities in Honour of their Emperours or 

 Emprefles ; fo It was no lefs common for one Emperour, up- 

 on doing fome fignal good Offices to a favourite City, to have 

 His own Name fubilituted in the Place of His PredeceiTor's. 

 Thus Trocopim' telleth us, that Adrmnetum, in Refpeol to 

 the Emperour Ju/liman, was called in His Time Jufliniana - 

 as It might afterwards have been changed into Herac/ea, out 

 of the like Sentiments of Gratitude to His diftant Succeilbur 

 Heraclius. 

 The Naviga- HevkL•, m croffing the interjacent Gulph, lyeth feven Leagues 

 niiGniih. only to the S. by W. of Hamam-et, though, in traveUing by 

 Land, the Diftance is upwards of thirty Geographical Miles, 

 or a tedious Day's Journey. The Mariner may traverfe all 

 Parts of this Gulph without the leaft Danger from Rocks, or 

 Shallows; neither could He fail, even in the greateft Diilrefs 

 of Weather, without fome extraordinary Accident, to reach 

 either the Ports of Siagul and Aphrodtjiiim, or the Coibon at 

 leaft of Adrumetum. This City then, according to the Con- 

 jedures of Scaliger^ and others, could not well be called The 



Vid. Frocop. de vEdificiis On. Juflinuim Cap. 6. i Quod dicit Solhius [Exc. p. 24. C] 

 de Hadramyto, id origine verbi confirmatur, quae plane Fwi'ica elt r~>1C-")i"n. Sed Arab'ice 

 melius ey^/o jjae^ apice in fccunda litera fupcricripto, ut ut Hadramutb. Ita etiam voca- 

 tus fiiius Jo^tan de pofteritatc Sem. Gcn. X. z6. Elt autcm Adramyc "fTrcwMf Πλίτων®'. Nam 



