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cious than the Great Tort : and, according to the Liberty of 

 Exprelfion in the Gentile Ages, might much better deferve the 

 Epithet of Dhine, than the Ports, I have mentioned, at Ras 

 el Harjh-fa. Ttolemy we are fiire, iituates His Deorum Tortus Ue Pc 

 betwixt ^iza and Arjetiaria, which, as I have before obferved, Pcoicn?y, "^ 

 can be no other than This, provided Geeza or Warran is the 

 antient B^iza, -inArzew is, without Doubt, the antient ^r/t'- 

 naria. But we are to take Notice at the fame Time, that Our 

 Author placeth His Deorum Tortus id. only to the Eaft, and 

 15-'. to the South ofHt^za'^ and with refped: to ^rfenaria. He 

 fituateth It ^o'. to the Weft, and only 5-'. to the South ; a Por- 

 tion altogether imaginary, and in no Manner correfponding with 

 any of the Harbours or Windings of the adjacent Parts of the 

 Sea-Coaft. 



-\ ^rzew, the ^ntiQWt y^rfenaria, is at the Diftance of three aizcw, t/-. 

 Roman iMiles from the Port, as Tliny placeth It. The Coun- Rri'^Sr;. 

 try, for fome Miles behind It, is made up of rich champain'""'" ^^^''' 

 Ground : but we look down upon the Sea, from fome Precipices, 

 which, in That Direction, muft have been always a natural Safe- 

 guard to the City. The Water made ufe of by the Inhabitants 

 at prefent, heth lower than the Sea; a Circumftance, that will 

 perhaps account for the Brackifhnefs of It. They draw It, be- 

 low the Precipices, from a Number of Wells, which, by the 

 Mafonry, appear to be as old as the City. Yet They have a 

 Tradition that Their Predeceflbrs were better fupplied,in having 

 Water conveyed to Them by an Aquedudt. Some of the 

 Arches of It were fhewn me, as a Proof of This Tradition- 

 yet, asThefe want the Channel, and no farther Traces of Them 

 appear in the Way to the Sigg and the Taleelet, the only Ri- 

 vers that could furnilh the Water ; we may imagine Them ra- 

 ther to have been a Part of fome other Edifice: but, of what 

 Kind, This fmall Fragment is not fufficient to inftru(3; us. How- 

 ever, in fome Meafure to fupply the Want of fuch a Conve- 

 niency, the Founders have made the ufual Provifion for the 

 colle8;ing of Rain Water, (inferiour indeed to what the former 

 might have produced,) by building the whole City upon Ci- 

 fterns. Thefe ftill fubfift, but are converted to a different life ; 

 ferving the Inhabitants for fo many Hovels to dwell in. There 

 are feveral Capitals, Bafes, Shafts of Pillars, and other antient 

 Materials, that lye fcattered among the Ruins. A well finifhed 



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