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tual war : they pay no taxes to the Bey, but live in conflant 

 defiance of him. 



As this is the Mons Audus of Ptolemy, here too muft be 

 fixed his Lambefa* or Lambefentium Colonia, which, by a 

 hundred Latin inferiptions remaining on the fpot, it is atteft- 

 ed to have been. It is now called Tezzoute : the ruins of 

 the city are very extenfive. There are feven of the gates 

 Hill Handing, and great pieces of the walls folidly built 

 with fquare mafonry without lime. The buildings remain- 

 ing are of very different ages, from Adrian to Aurelian, nay 

 even to Maximin. One building only, fupported by columns 

 of the Corinthian order, was in good taite; what its ufe was 

 I know not. The drawing of this is in the King's collec- 

 tion. It was certainly defigned for fome military purpofe, 

 by the fize of the gates ; I mould fufpect a liable, for ele- 

 phants, or a repofitory for catapulta, or other large military 

 machines, though there are no traces left upon the walls in- 

 dicating either. Upon the key-ftone of the arch of the 

 principal gate there is a baflb-relievo of the Standard of a 

 legion, and upon it an infeription, Legio tertia Augufta, 

 which legion, we know from hiflory, was quartered here. 

 Dr Shawf fays, that there is here a neat, round, Corinthian 

 temple, called Cubb el Arroufah, the Cupola or Dome of the 

 Bride or Spoufe. Suoh a building does exift, but it is by no 

 means of a good taile, nor of the Corinthian order ; but of 

 a long difproportioned Doric, of the time of Aurelian, and 

 does not merit the attention of any arehitccl. Dr Shaw 



never 



1 Ptol Gicg. lib. iv. p. 1 1 1. | Shaw's Travel?, chap. viii. p. 57. 



