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at prefent, arifeth from the great Number oi Alhenna Plants, 

 that are cultivated in Their Gardens ; whofe Leaves, after being 

 dryed and powdered, are difpofed of to good Advantage in all 

 the Markets of This Kingdom. This Tree, no lefs than the 

 Palm, requires to be frequently watered; for which Purpofe 

 the Triton is canton'd out into a Number of artificial Channels, 

 as It feems to have been in the Time of Tl'my, ' 



The River of Gahs, the Triton of the Antients, falls into The Rher 

 the Sea to the Northward of the old City, and forms the£rf!p°i^*D. 

 Ground, upon which It was fituated, into a Teninfula. It hath 1^'f^p.'i9! 

 If s Sources three or four Leagues only to the S. S. W. oiGahs, ^.'4• c.* ^' 

 (where perhaps we are to look for the Aquas Tacapitanas) and ^^^^pis. a. 

 becomes at once (as is ufual w ith feveral other Rivers in thefe 

 hotter Climates) a confiderable Stream, near as big as the Cher- 

 well. Two long Chains of Mountains, which reach from El 

 Hammah to Maggs^ and are continued from thence to the Sea- 

 Coaft over againft the Ifland Jerla^ will neither admit of the 

 Length nor of that SuceelTion of Lakes which have been attri- 

 buted to This River by antient as well as modern Geographers. 

 It is impoflible likewife, that, according to Ttolemy, It ihould 

 have It's Origine in the Mountain of Vafaletus. For if This^''^-p-i+•'^• 

 be the fame, as the Name feems to infinuate, with the preient 

 Ufe-let, It will lye at too great a Diftance to be tiken for it. And 

 indeed if we except that imall Space of Ground which is refreih- 

 ed by the Springs of El Hammah, (for the River Accroude is 

 only a periodical Stream ) all the reft of the Country in This 

 Diredion is parched up for Want of Water. If This therefore 

 be the River Triton, as will not I prefume be difputed. Geogra- 

 phers have been greatly miftaken in their Defcriptions of It. 



Three Miles from Gahs to the S. E. hy E. is the httle Village Το -buiba. 

 To'hulha ; and ten Leagues farther, in the fame Direftion, we 

 have the liland Gerba, oxjerba as the Tunifeens pronounce It,Jcrba, p.as. 

 the moft fouthern Territory of This Kingdom. Jerba appears to dd• tU 

 be the Brachion of Scylax, and the Meninx ' of Straho and o- exc. p. ?. c. 

 thers; though Ttolemy maketh the latter a City only of themNx. p"8. 

 Lotophagitis, as He calleth This Ifland. w^LotO-* 



PHAGITIS 



I I acape, telici fuper omne tniraculum riguo Γοΐο: term's fere milJ. paiT. in omncm par- 

 tem tons abundat, largus quidem, fed ceitis horarum fpatiis difpenfatur inter incolas. J.i8. 

 cap. 22. Tacape \ 2Πϋ, locus Inimidus & irriguus. Bocb. Chan. l.i. cap. 2f . 2 Fallor an 

 menmx piimce fcribebatur ^pj »a me-niks, quafi dixeris aquas defeilus, i, e. deficentes vel 

 i*D3 «a im-nks, quafi dixeris aquas receifus, i, e. recedentes? Id. ib'd. 



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