upon the Sea-Coafl of the Winter Circuit. ipy 



to the S. W. of Sfax, and nearly at the half Way to Maha-refs. 

 It hath been built upon a low and rocky Piece of Ground, near 

 two Miles in Circuit; but as the antient Materials, have been 

 employed in the building of Sfax \ there is fcarce one Piece of 

 Hewn-Stone to be met with. This maritime City, fo famous 

 in the old Geography, is not only badly fituated, but feems never 

 to have had either a Port or Cothon. The adjacent Country like- 

 wife is dry and barren, without either Fountain or Rivulet to 

 refreili It. 



Five Miles to the S. W. of Tbamee, we crofs a pretty large wed ei 

 Brook, the only running Water I remember to have met with on τΧ'ΓτΓναιβ 

 this Side To-hulha. This, if I miftake not, They call The {JTedef^"^^'"^' 

 Thainee'] River of Thainee : and provided Marius in His Expe- 

 dition againft C?/?/^, continued his Marches along theCoaftof 

 Bizacmm, This or the Tarff\ a few Leagues further to the S. 

 Ihould be the River Tanais, where (as Sallufl' informeth us) 

 the Romans took in Their Provilion of Water. 



t Maha-refs, the Macodama perhaps of the Antients, is a ^j^' ^'^^o'. 

 little Village four Leaeues to the S.W. of Thainee. Here are?/'"'' "'' 



"^ *-* Macoma- 



the Ruins of a larse Caftle, and the like Conveniences, which o'""^• ^'"' 



. . p. 1 3. F. p. 17. 



liave been mentioned at Elalia, for colle6ting of Rain Wa-^^-G- 

 ter. The Inhabitants inform us, that the Latter were built by 

 Sultan hen Eglih, whom the People of this Kingdom have in 

 the greateft Efteem and Veneration ; and who hath been the 

 like generous Benefaolor at feveral other Places in this Circuit. 



t A little Way from Maha-refs we crofs the River Tarff^T^'^f^^"^ 

 which rifeth near the Ruins of Tarfowah, four Leagues to the 

 Weftward of Maha-refs. There is a great Affinity in Sound, be- 

 twixt This Village and the Taphrura oi Ttolemy or the 7^;^^- Tarfowah, 

 rura of Teutingefs Tables. The fmall Gulph like wife into which IurT!" ε"'γ. 

 This River difchargeth Itfelf, might, for the fame Reafon, beS'. bb?^' 

 received for the Port of Tafra taken Notice of by Thuanus^, 

 were it not at a greater Diftance from the River Triton, than 

 feems to be fuggefted by that Author. 



The Caftle of Ungha, two good Leagues to the S. W. of Ungh». 

 Maha-refs, was built, according to the Tradition of the Inha- 



I Cum ad flumen \Tmam al. T.inaim] vcntum eft; maxima vis utrium effecla. Ibi • ju- 



bet omnibus farcinis abjedis, aqua modo feqiie & jumenta onerarc. Dein nodtem to- 



tam icinere faiito coni'edit : idem proxuma facit. Dcin tcrtia multo ante lucis adventum 

 pervenit in locum tumulofum, ab Capfa non amplius duum millium intervallo. Sail. Bell. 

 Jug. ?. 9(i. ζ Τφα porcum juxca Triton'is fluvium tenuit. 1. 7. 



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