upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 19 ^ 



Country Seat οϊ Hannibal, from whence He is faid to have em- 

 barked after his Flight from Carthage. 



t Elal'ta, a large Extent of Ruins, is iituated upon the Bor- Eiaiu, u, 

 ders of a fertil Plain, which reacheth iiQ\\\Sale6to, to within £:«.'p!iV.e• 

 a few Miles of She-ah. Beiides fuch Ruins as It hath in com- ?a! r^i.p/»r. 

 mon with other Places, we have here feveral Cifterns, with'^'^' 

 large Areas to receive the Rain Water. But Thefe, from the 

 Workmaniliip and Contrivance, may be fufpeded to have been 

 built lince the Invafions of the Saracens. Elalia feems to be 

 the Achola or Acilla of the Antients, which Ttolemy hath fix- 

 ed in this Situation, or betwixt Thapfus and Knfp(e. In Teu- 

 t'mgefs Tables likewife we {^^ΑηοίΙα^ (corruptly no doubt for 

 Achola) placed to the Southward of Sulle&i and fix Miles to 

 the N. of Rufpie. ISiow as She-ah^ from the Name and Situa- sbe-ah, or 

 tion, appears to be the antient Ruffie, Achola, by lying at lix^*^• p-iVe. 

 Miles Diftance to the Northward of It, may with the greateft aa. 

 Exa61:nefs be fixed at this Place. The Ruins of She-ah reach asshebbah. 

 far as Shebbah, where there are at prefent a few miferable Cot- 

 tages and Inhabitants. 



A little farther is Ca-pondia, the Caput Fada οί Procopius,^''-?^'^'^'''^ 

 the Ammonls Tromontormm of Straho, and the Tromontorium"^' ^^^• am- 

 Brac bodes of Ttolemjy. It is a low narrow Strip of Land, which P'om.' exc. 

 itretcheth Itfelf a great Way into the Sea : and upon the Point chode^^''" 

 of It, there is a high Watch Tower, with the Traces of feveral ρ-ΊΤε.^'"'' 

 Ruins, that might formerly belong to the City built here by 

 Juftin'ian \ 



Paihng by Melotmupj, a fmall Village three Leagues to the Meiounun.. 

 S. W. of Ca-pondia, and Butt-rah, a demoliihed Fort a little ^""-"^• 

 farther to the S. S. W. we continue to travel near three Leagues 

 in the fame Dired;ion and arrive at Ιηβ>ϊ11α. This is the Ufdla^^^^^^^^^h The 

 of the Antients, where we have a fmall Bay with a Heap of^^^ p-ij.e. 

 Ruins hard by It; and upon the adjacent Promontory, therep^»/• bb." * 

 is a watch Tower, like that at Ca-poudia. There is likewife an- 

 other Building of the fame Kind a little to the Northward of 

 Sfax\ All of them very proper Guides to the Mariner in ap- 

 proaching this dangerous Coaft. 



The two flat and contiguous Iflands of the Hjierkynefs are^^^ i/?^Wi 

 iituated to the Eaftward of Inflnlla, at the Diftance of ήνε^-^δκίι- 

 Leagues. Thefe are the Cercina and Circin'ttis of the oldGeo-cfNTTi.""" 



Exc. p. 8. B. 

 I Vid. ΡϊΟίορ. dc .£dirtciis Dn. Jufiinium Cap. 6. ai. E. p. I'g. 



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