Of the Winter Circuit. ■ . ^ , ν λ ^^ v^^-:: i. j ^p 



ber of the Latter are very well preferved, being fome of them 

 round, or in the Figure of an Ootogon, fupported by four, fix 

 or eight Columns : whilft others again are fquare and compad: 

 Buildings, with a Nich in one of the Fafcades, or elfe a wide 

 open Place, like a Balcony, upon the Tops of Them. But the In- 

 fcriptions which belonged as well toThefe as to other Antiqui- 

 ties, are either defaced by Time or the Malice of the Arabs. Up- 

 on a triumphal Arch, more remarkable for It's Largenefs than 

 Beauty, we have the following Infcription in Letters nearly 

 of a Foot long : but there is not the leaft Notice taken, as 

 ufual, of the City or People that ereded It. 



IMP. CAES. L. SEPTIMIO SEVERO PERTINACI AVG. 



P. M. TRIB. POT. III. IMP. V. COS. II. PP. PARTHICO ARABICO 



EX PARTHICO ADIABENICO. DD. PP. 



Provided we could be fure that the leaft Tradition of the'^^THUNu- 



DFONUM 



former Name was preferved, we might fufpeot It to be theCoi. £«• p• 

 Tynidrum or TJoimudronum of the Antients, which, being pla- 

 ced by Ttolemy more than two Degrees to the Weftward of 

 Sicca, will not be far diftant from This Situation. 



For Want of fufficient Geographical Circumftances and In- Zowareen. 

 ftrudlions, we fliall meet with the like Difficulties and Uncer- 

 tainties in fixing the antient Name of Zowareen, fix Leagues 

 to the E. S. E. of Keff\ of Manfoufe, three Leagues to the Manfoufe. 

 Southward of Toufeph ; of Sbeehah, feven Leagues to the S. sbeebah, tt&s 

 S. E. οι Kejf'. oi Nah-hanah, eight Leagues to the Weftward ^^ebinthi- 

 of Herhla: of Jelloulah, five Leagues to the S. W. by S. ofiy-c.E.'p.* 

 Hab'hanah\ and oi FuJ-fanah, eight Leagues to the S. E. ofjeiiouiah, 

 HjfdraJj', at all which Places there are confiderable Heaps ofsAlirl- 

 Ruins. However Sbeebab, from the Extent of Ruins and the Si- p.^i. c.^ ' 

 t nation of It with Refpeot to Kiffer, may probably have been*^"^"^ ' 

 the Tticca Terebinthina ; as Jelloulah, from lying below the 

 Mountains of Ufe-let, may lay in the like Claim to the Oppi- 

 dum Ufalitanum of the Antients. The following Epitaph is 

 among the Ruins of Manfoufe. 



D d d X D. M. S. 



