xxx INTRODUCTION. 



■never was. fo far fouth. as Jibbel Aurez, {o could only fay 

 this from report. 



From Jibbel Aurcz nothing occurred in the flyle of ar- 

 chitecture that was material. Hydra remained on the left 

 hand. I came to Caflareen, the ancient Colonia Scillitana% 

 where I fuffercd fome thing both from hunger and from fear. 

 The country was more rugged and broken than any we 

 had yet feen, and withal lei's fruitful and inhabited. The 

 Moors of thefe parts are a rebellious tribe, called Nemem- 

 mah, who had fled from their ordinary obligation of attend- 

 ing the Bey, and had declared themfelves on the part of 

 the rebel-moors, the Hcnncifhah. 



'My intentions now were to reach Feriana, the Thalaf 

 of the ancients, where I expected confiderable fubjects for 

 iludy ; but in this I was difappointed, and being on the 

 frontier, and in dangerous times, when feveral armies were 

 in the field, I thought it better to fleer my courfe eaft- 

 ward, and avoid the theatre of war. 



"Journeying eaft, I came to Spaitla J, and again got into 

 ■the kingdom of Tunis. Spaitla is a corruption of SufTetula ||, 

 which was probably its ancient name before it became a 

 Roman colony; fo called from SufTetes, a magiftrature in 

 all the countries dependent upon Carthage. Spaitla has ma- 

 ny inicriptions, and very extenfive and elegant remains. 

 There are three temples, two of them Corinthian, and one of 



the 



'* Shaw's Travels, cap. v. p. 119* 

 t Sal. Eel. Jug. § 94. L. Fior. lib. iii. cap. 1. % Shaft's Travels, chap. v. p. 118. 



f| Inn. Anton. p< 3* 



