Of the Winter Circuit. 2 1 ? 



from Nefta to the Marks, to be the Talus Libyan and That, 

 which lyeth betwixt the Marks, (where the Ground is gene- 

 rally dry) and the liland^ for the Talus Tallas\ whilft the 

 Eaftein Portion of It might have been the Lacus Trttonis. Yet 

 we ihall ftill be at a Lofs to account for the River Triton, which, 

 according to Ttolemy and other antient Geographers, is made to 

 pafs through This Lake, in It's Courfe to the Sea. I have already 

 defcribed this River, and obferved that It hath no fuch Situati- 

 on ; though, from It's falling into the Sea at Gahs, the antient 

 Tacape, This, without doubt, muft be the Triton of the Antients. 



Befides; the Water, both of the River Triton and of the Brook The water of 

 οι El Hammah, is very fweet and wholefom.e, but That of this ^^^'"'^' 

 Lake (and indeed of moil others that I have tailed in Africa,) 

 hath a Saltnefs not inferiour to That of the Sea ; a Circumftance, 

 which alone may be a fufficient; Proof, that there could be no 

 open Communication at lead betwixt them. 



To account therefore for this Difficulty, and to reconcile It, ithathnocon•.. 

 as far as poffible, with What hath been already taken Notice of, Ζ'ίΙΖίΤκ;. 

 it may be added, that the Vicinity of the moft eailern Parts of^"^ 

 This Lake to the Rivulet ofElHammah ; and the Nearnefs agai/i 

 oi El Hammah to the Sources of the Triton, (though the feveral 

 intervening Hills admit of no Communication, yet thefe Cir- 

 cumftances I fay) might have induced the Antients, (who feem to 

 have defcribed this Part of Bizacium from Tradition only or 

 fome uncertain Accounts,) to have imagined It to lye in fuch 

 a Pofition. 



Leaving iVf^^^i, one of thelelTerVillages of iVi/^-^OTi/^/j three Maggs. 

 Leagues to the E. N. E. of E-hillee, we travel near thirty Miles 

 through an uncomfortable Defert, without either Herbage or 

 Water, 'till we arrive within a few Miles oi El Hammah. 



ElHammah lyeth four Leagues to theWeil ward oiGahs, being 

 one of the Frontier Towns of the Tunifeens, where they have a " "" 

 fmall Caftle and Garrifon. The old City is at a little Diilance, 

 ftill preferving fome Tokens of Antiquity, though nothing confi- 

 derable. The Infcriptions, in particular, that are mentioned by * 

 Dapper ' ^naLeo,no longer fubfift,having undergone the like Fate 

 with the other antient Monuments and Strudures of this Place. 



ElHammah is fo named from one or other of the hot Baths, ei Hammah, 

 which are reforted to from all Parts of the Kingdom. It is gene- Z^^,' ^^""^ ' 



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 qusdam anciquiuris m,onumenta. 7. £,f(;, p. 23J. Hhh rallv 



