ic)2 Geographical Ohfervations 



more hard and durable. This Cape and that oiMonafieer, form 

 the Bay of Lempta,which. muft have aiforded a Variety of Ports 

 in former Times. For an liland runs parallel with the fouthern 

 Shore, from Demafs almoft as far as To-bulha : there is like- 

 wife another which reacheth from Monafleer, the half Way 

 The jowries nearly to Lempta ; whilft the Jowries, the Tarichi^ as they 

 li^cHi'^. ^ feem to be of Straho, lye over againft Lempta and To-hdba. 

 Exc. p. . . Q^y^^ ^^^g £-Q ^^,g^l apprized of the Importance of the Latter, 

 (and there are no other to the "Northward) that He thought 

 fit to appoint feveral Stationary VeiTels ' to fecure Them. 

 Afi^f r/:>r ^^ Medea, called likewife Africa in the modern Geography, 

 mbaJis.^^"'^^ fituated upon a Teninjula five Miles to the S. of Demafs, 

 and appears to have been formerly a Place of great Strength 

 and Confideration. The Port, which was an Area nearly of a 

 hundred Yards in Square, lyeth within the very Walls of the 

 City, with the Mouth of It opening towards Cap-oudia ; but 

 is not capable at prefent of receiving the fmalleft \^eflel. Leo'- 

 lays that It was founded, (It might have been poifibly rebuilt) 

 by Mahdi the firft Patriarch of Kair-wan, and therefore af- 

 fumed His Name ; but there is fomething too polite and regu- 

 lar in feveral of the remaining Capitals, Entablatures, and other 

 Pieces of the antient Mafonry, ( defaced as they are at this 

 Time) to fufpeol the Founder of Them to have been an Ara- 

 bian. Thuanm ^ hath given us a juft Defcription of This Place ; at 

 the fame Time he hath miftaken It for the antient Aphrodifm?n. 

 ΙΪ'?Γοτκ' + i^ive Miles to the S. bj>W. oi El Medea, is Saledo the Sul- 

 ^"'''FcVrah. ^^^^ ^^ Suble&e of the middle Age, where we meet with the 

 veut. A.A. Ruins of a very large Caftle, little inferiour in Extent to the 

 Tower of London. It feems to have been ereoled in order to 

 command a fmall Creek, or Port which lyeth below It to 

 the S. W. This Place or El Medea' iliould be the Tower or 



I ClaiTc, circum infiilas portufque diTpofuit; quo tutius commeacus fupportaii poiTer. 

 5. 20. 2 EI Mubdia oppidum noftris fere temporibus a Mahdi primo Cairuoan Pontifice 

 conditum ad mare meditcrraneum exftrudum, muris, turribus atque portis munitiiEmis or- 

 natum.porcum habetfrequentiifimum. ^. Leo p. 222. 3 EaOvbs (yipbrodifmit) hi humil'i ac 

 piano Saxo fundata majorem partem mari alluitur, eoque plerumque vadolb, uc triremes ad 

 earn commode accedere non poiTent, qua parte terram attingit CCXXX tantum pailbum 

 fpatio; valido muro crebris per intervaJla turribus & propugnaculis diftindo: Vallata urbi 

 collis imminet acclivi i Septentrione deicenfu, fed i tergo undique prsruptus, qui i praefi- 

 diariisTurcis tcnebatur. Tbitan. Hift. J. 7. 4 Quum equi, quo in loco juiTi erant, pr^efto 

 fuilTcnt, node via cita regioncm quandam agri Vocani tranfgrcitus (Haimibal) poftero die ma- 

 ne inter Acillam & Tbapfum ad fuam Turr'im pervenit. Ibi eum parata inihudaque rcmigio 



excepit Navis. Eo die in Circinam infulam trajecit. Liv. I.33. 5.34. Hannibal appropin- 



quante vcfpere, cquum confccndit; & Rus Urbanum, quod propter littus maris habcbat, 

 ignaris fervis, juffitquead portam revertenteei opperiri, contendit. Jtifl. Hift. i.3r. 



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