upon the Sea-Coafl of the Winter Circuit. 191 



\ Lempta, the Leptis parva of the Antients, is fuppofed byLemp", ne 

 Bocbart' to denote a Port or Station for VeiTels. It hath been^'^'^^'^^ 

 a Mile or more in Circuit, but at prefent there is nothing left (-^." p.^?. b! 

 of It, befides a fmall Part of the Caftle, with a low Shelf οίΚ^Άλ!^ ' 

 Rocks that probably made the northern Mound of the Cothon. 

 Buno telleth us that Leptis is what we now call Aracca : per- 

 haps He meant Herhla, for there is no other Village of the like 

 Sound upon the Sea Coaft. 



t A few Miles to the Weft ward οι Lempta are the Ruins ofsoo Hadjar, 

 ^gar, another of Ctefafs Stations, which Hirtkis telleth us"' ^^''' 

 was fixteen Miles from Thapfus. The rocky Situation of this 

 Place, and the Quantity we have here of Stones and Ruins, 

 might give Occafion to the Arahs, (according to their Facility 

 of Invention) to alter a little the old Name, and call It Boo 

 Hadjar, [The Father of a Stone i. e.] The Stony City. 



Between Boo Hadjar and Tiemafs, but within four Miles oiALake of 

 the Latter, there is a large Lake of Salt Water, which reach- 

 eth within half a League of To-hulha. This ^ is the Lake taken το -buiba. 

 Notice of by Hirt'ms \ as To-hulha, a fmall maritime Village, 

 may lye near the Place where Cajar created a Fort to prevent \ 

 Scipws fending in freih Succours by This narrow PaiTage to 

 Thapfus. 



Demafsj the antient Thapfus, is fituated upon a low Neck Demafs, Ue 

 of Land three Miles to the E. h/ S. of To-hulha. The great exc. Ρ.13.Έ. 

 Extent of Ruins maketh It the moft coniiderable City on um^?l»i. κκ. ' 

 Side Carthage, though, by the Taxation ', It Ihould have been 

 much fmaller than Adrametum in the Time of Ctefar. From 

 thefe Ruins and thofe of Herhla, Sufa and Monaβeer received 

 large Contributions in building their Walls, Caftles and Houfes 

 of better Fafliion. 



There is ftill remaining, in Defiance of Time and the Sea, «? cothon 

 a great Part of the Cothon, which was built in Frames, in the ^^ "'* 

 fame Manner with the Walls of Tlem-fan. The Compofition like- 

 wife is made up of fmall Pebbles and Mortar, which are fo well 

 cemented and knit together, that a folid Rock could not be 



I Viz. i ΓΊ37 quod pun'ice ftationem fignlficat. Boch. Chan. I.i. cap. 24. Sic Lucan. 

 Bell. Civ. L. 9. 1. pji. 



Proxima Leptis erat cujus Stat'ione quieta 

 Exegere hyemem. 



2 Erac Stagnum Salinarum, inter quod & mate anguftice quxdam non amplius mille & quin- 

 gentos paffus intererant; quas ^ci/i/o intrare, & 77w^^irfK» auxilium ferre, conabatur. ^.6z. 



3 ThapfuAn'is HS XX millia, conventui eorum XXX millia, Adrumetan'ts HS XXX, conven- 

 tui eorum HS L millia, mulftae nomine, imponit. 5• if- Exc. p, 8. B- 



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