Of the Winter Circuit. 



Chiffel; fo that we cannot colleol the antient Name of This 

 City from any of the Antiquities that have been hitherto dif- 

 covered. However as It is fituated betwixt TiJ'dms and yi- 

 drumeium, though nearer the Latter; by the due Diftance 

 of It likewife from the River Mergaleel, the y4quis Regih of 

 the Antients, It muft have been, I prefume, the J^ico ^4ηιηβι 

 of the Itinerary. Thuanus ' muft certainly be miftaken in ma- 

 king It the antient CurubiSy which hath been already taken No- 

 tice of, as a maritime City, fixty Miles diftant to the N. E. It 

 may be queftioned likewife whether It be the fame Name with 

 Cairo or Kahiro in Egyp, denoting a Victory. For Kair-ii/an 

 feems to be the fame Appellation with, what we call. Ca- 

 ravan, originally fignifying, as Leo and Marmot fuppofe, the 

 Place where the^r^^j had UxaiRendezwus"- in their Conquefts 

 of this Part of Africa. 



t Spaitta, the antient Sufetuta, lyeth about twelve Leagues 

 to the Southward of Keffy being one of the moft remarkable 

 Places in Barlfary for the Extent and Magnificence of It's Ruins. 

 For at a Furlong's Diftance to the Eaft ward, there is a fumptuous 

 triumphal Arch of the Corinthian Order, confifting of one large 

 Arch, with a leffer one on each Side of It : but this Part only 

 of the Dedication remaineth. 



201 



Spaitla, Tke 



SUFETULA. 



Exc. p. 17. 

 paflim. p-28. 



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I Calipha Africa Caruani five Curubi, urbe ab Occuba Nafici F. ante CC annos in Cjrenaka 

 condita, poft unam & alteram de Chriflianis reportatam ab Arabibus Viiloriam, id enim no- 

 men fonat, fedem habuit : cumque uubs confluentis ad habitandum tnuldtudinis capax non 

 eflet, juxta earn & altera civitas exftruota eft, Raqueda difta. Timan. 1. 7. Curubh quae & 

 Carvenna. ibid. 2 Cairaoan Condkorcm habnk Hucba, qui univerfi exercitus dux ex /irrfii<» 

 dclerta ab Hutmeno Pontifice tertio miflus fuerat j — neque aliam ob caufam conditum fuifle 

 dicunt, quam ut in eo exercitus cum omni praeda Barbar'is atque Numidis adempta, fecure fe 

 continere poilent. — Eo tempore quo Elagleb Regno potitus eft, tam incolis quam «difi- 

 ciis auotum. J. Leo. p. 223. Marmol. Hift. /φ. c.34. 



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