4-0 Geographical Objer vat ions upon the Sea-Coajl 



ofgreat Walls, that It cannot well be conceived, how They fhould 

 come there, without fonie fuch violent Concuflion. 

 7;:^ cothon. No Place could be better contrived for the Convenience and 

 Safety of Their Velfels, than the Cothon muft have been in It's 

 primitive Situation. For, (befides the Capacity of It, which 

 is at leaft fifty Yards fquare, fecure in every Part from the 

 Wind, the Swell, and the Current, each of Them troublefome 

 enough fometimes in the Port;) we cannot but admire the 

 great Art and Contrivance of the Founder in fupplying It with 

 Water. For This Purpofe, we difcover, upon a round penin- 

 fular Hillock that makes the Northern Mound of the Port and 

 Cothon, feveral Floors and Pavements of Terrafs and Mofaic 

 Work, laid, as it appears, on Purpofe to receive the Rain- Wa- 

 ter, which was to fall from Them into fmall Conduits, and from 

 Thefe again into greater, 'till at laft They were All to empty 

 Themfelves into a large oval Ciftern. I only faw the Bottom 

 of This Refewoir, and cannot therefore judge of the Capacity of 

 It; however, according to the Quantity of Water that falls every 

 Year in This Country, a Provifion of feveral thoufand Tons 

 might have been colle6led by This Method. This Spot of 

 Ground, nearly of an Hemifpherical Figure, is about a quarter 

 of a Mile in Circumference, and hath a fmall Fort built upon the 

 Top of It. 

 The Tort, or The Port is nearly in the Form of a Circle, of two hundred 

 Yards in Diameter : but the fecureft Part of It, which, 'tjll of 

 late, was towards the Cothon, is now filled up with a Bank of 

 Sand, that daily increafeth. There lyeth in the Mouth of It, 

 a fmall Rocky Ifland, the main Shelter and Defence at prfefent 

 againft the N. and N. E. Tempefts. -'^^ - 



sheriheiir/v This Ifland therefore, with the large Circuit and fumptiious 

 cxfarea^JBr. Rcmalns of the antient City, will afford other Arguments for 

 F.'^p.g. eI'v; fuppofing Sherfiell the lol or Julia Ccejarea. For Ports are 

 2?.'cap.li5>ery rare upon the Coaft oi Barhary\ efpecially, in This Si- 

 p.2,-.i3. tuation, where we are to look for C(ejarea\ and an Haven with 

 an Ifland at the Entrance into it, is only, I prefume, to be met 

 with at Tackumhreet\ a Place certainly at too great a Diftance 

 to be taken for It. Tnifs, which is conjeftured by Sanfon ' and 

 Others to have been the Julia Ccefarea, hath indeed an Ifland 

 before It, but not the leafl; Rudiments of an Haven : and ^l- 



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