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the controul of government, this river was the ancient Bag* 

 rada*. 



AFTERpaffing a 'triumphal arch of bad tafte at BafU-bab, 

 I came the next day to Thuggaf, perhaps more properly 

 called Tucca, and by the inhabitants Dugga. The reader in 

 this part mould have Doctor Shaw's Work before him, my 

 map of the journey not being yet published ; and, indeed, 

 after Shaw's, it is fcarcely necefTary to thofe who need only 

 an itinerary, as, befides his ownobfervations, he had for ba» 

 lis thofe of Sanfon. 



I found at Dugga a large fcene of ruins, among which 

 one building was eafily diftinguifhable. It was a large 

 temple of the Corinthian order, all of Parian marble, the co- 

 lumns fluted, the cornice highly ornamented in the very 

 belt ftyle of fculpture. In the tympanum is an eagle flying 

 to heaven, with a •human figure upon his back,, which, by 

 the many inferiptions that are Hill remaining,- feems to be 

 intended for that of Trajan, and the apotheoils of that em- 

 peror to be the fubjecT:, the temple having been erected by 

 Adrian to that prince, his benefactor and predeceflbr, I 

 fpent fifteen days upon the architecture of this temple with- 

 out feeling the fmalleft difguft, or forming a wifh to finim it; 

 it is,with all its parts, flill unpublished in my collection, Thefe 

 beautiful and magnificent remains of ancient tafte and 

 greatnefs, fo eafily reached in perfect fafety, by a ride along 

 the Bagrada,full as pleafant and as fafe as along the Thames 



between 



* Strabo lib xvii. p. 1 189. It fignifies the tiver of Cows, or Kine. P. Mela lib. ;. 

 cap, .7. Sft. It. lib, vi. 1, 140, -f Pro!. Geog, lib* iy, Procop, lib. vi. c:p. 5. de MdiS. 



