of the Weftern 'Province. ^ i 



^ms, the other City brought by D/ipper and later Geographers 

 iiiito the DifputCj was formerly in the like Situation with Tmfs\ 

 the prefent Port having been made fince the 7/^r^i/Z>Conqucits, 

 by uniting to the Continent th^ Ifland that formerly lay be- 

 fore It. The principal CharadierLfl;ick therefo^'e^, whereby the 

 Antients delcribe Their /<?/C^/^r^^i, cannot properly agree with 

 any other Place than Sher-JJjeU. 



To the befoaje mentioned Circumitances, we may add whatshermduw 



, • 1 r Cxiarea each 



Trocopim ' afSrmoth concern mg C^Jarea, i}iz. that It wasof t^'""" ^^^ 

 thirty good 'Day.s Journey from Carthage: and indeed^ the A'^^^-Canhage. 

 filahs ' or Caravans make^ to This Day, the fame Number of 

 Stations fsom Tunk ( in the Neighbourhood of Carthage ) to 

 Sher-fiell. In the fame Proportion likewife that Hippo-regius 

 or Bona, which by the fame Author' is faid to be Ten Days 

 Journey from Carthage, is, in a dired Line, CXXVUI Miles 

 from If, Cafarea, in being fixed at Sher-JJjell, at thrice that 

 Diftance or CCCLXXXIV Miles, will be exadly Thirty. From 

 whence it will follow, that upon a Suppofition they travel at 

 this Time in the fame manner as they antiently did : and that 

 no greater Irregularities and Windings are to be met with in 

 the Road from Sher-fjell to Bona, than are proportionably 

 met with in the Road from Thence to Carthage, there will be 

 the like Diftance betwixt Tunis and Sher-JJjell, which the An- 

 tients have laid down betwixt Qarthage and Cafarea. 



But It muft be confeffed, notwithftanding Thefe Arguments, r-^^ itinerary 

 that Ttolemy' and the Author* of the Itinerary, do not vouch mv^ r<z^/M 

 for This Situation oi Qcefavea-, neither indeed do They agree //STo/^ 

 thereupon between Themfelves. For the Latter fixeth It only ^'^^'*'"' 

 feventy one Roman Miles from Arfenar'ta, thereby authorizing, 

 in fome Meafure, the Opinion of Sanjon ; though, I fuppofe, 

 it hath been already proved, that Tnifs could not be the Place. 

 Ttolemy, by fixing It 3°. 10'. from Arfenaria, placeth It, at 

 too great a Diftance to the Eaftward, in the Situation of jS- 

 giers, as Dapper ' and others feern to have done from His Au- 



* lO* ^lic^ The common Name in Barbary for ivhat are called Caravans in the Levant : 

 being fuch Companies of Merchants &c. wbq, for the greater Security, travel together in Bodies. 

 The ufual Time of travelling is eight or ten Hours : from Day-break^ 'till Noon ; and fometimes to 

 A- far [j-xac ] as they call the Mid-afternoon. l H [ Ktumfeitt ] iS'Z ^ rfUfZy TSiixoyla ou^Jya h- 

 J)i< )^af^HvQy </)'e;)(«, u riJh^i li j^ 7aV Hs<*!t^«f ^f^m idvn. Kei-nu o Ht SwAstoJi) ntjahti 71 19 ■mf^uivSlparTrQi' 

 h TMhcui ha. Procop. Bell. Vand. 1.2. c.c. 2 Zi\itm(ios Ji ■wnv [rs/>iV«p] loh-mi^iv ihaKiy. h ■jnMr 

 •n NiijUli/Cl' l^i^j^ky, iVi ^tthiojif HHf^^m, wpinif^Q- Si)(g. i/ufav Si's Kafy^S'eyQi' tfti^''^' ^ "^ Ivmivet \ijiov n^. 



>;«K. Id. ibid. C.4. 3 Exc. p.p. D. E. 4 Exc. p.2f. A.B. j Atl. Geogr. ut fupra p.ip7- 



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