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merit of its fcveral parts only could be collcvftcd from the 

 fragments which lie flrewed upon the ground. 



From Mufli * I proceeded north- ea-ft ward to Tuberfokc, 

 thence again to Dugga, and down the Bagrada to Tu- 

 nis. 



My third, or, which may be called my middle journey 

 through Tunis, was by Zowan, a high mountain, where is 

 a large aqueducl: which formerly carried its water to Car- 

 thage. Thence I came to Jelloula, a village lying below 

 high mountains on the weft ; thefe are the Montes VafFaleti 

 of Ptolemy $, as the town itfelf is the Oppidum Ufalitanum 

 of Pliny. I fell here again into the ancient road at Gilma ; 

 and, not fatisfied with what 1 had feen of the beauties of 

 Spaitla, I pafled there five days more, correcting and revi- 

 fing what I had already committed to paper. Independent 

 of the treafure I found in the elegance of its buildings, the 

 town itfelf is fituated in the mofl beautiful fpot in Barbary, 

 furrounded thick with juniper-trees, and watered by a plea- 

 fan t dream that finks there under the earth, and appears 

 no more. 



Here I left my former road at CafTareen, and proceeding 

 directly S. h. came to i eriana, the road that 1 had abandon- 

 ed before from prudential motives, b eriana, as has been 

 before obferved, is the ancient 1 hala, taken and deilroyed 

 by Metellus in his purfuit of Jugurtha. I had formed, I 

 know not from what rcafon, fanguine expectations of ele- 

 Vol. I. e gant 



* Itin. Anton, p. 2. .t Ptol. Geog. lib. iy. p. in 



