umi- 

 dicus. 



Of the Eaft em Province. 95' 



Pafling by the little Port Gavetto, we come to the Ras [o-*iv^] ^orto^vctzo. 

 Hadeed, rendered juftlyC«?^6'F<?n(9, oxThe IronTromojitory in Ras Hadccd. 

 the Modern Sea Charts. It is a white Precipice, twelve Leagues 

 to the Eaftward of the Seven Capes, and makcth tlic Eaflern 

 Extremity of the Gulf of Stora, the Sinus Numidkiis, as I siuus n 

 have obferved It was called by the Antients. 



Four Leagues from the Ras Hadeed, at the half \^'ay nearly ruck-ufli,r/^f 

 to the Ras el Hamrah, is the Village of TuchiJJj, (the Tacatua Evf.'p.iJ.D. 

 of the Itinerary and the Tacaccia ^ of Thuanus,) with a fruit- ^ ^ 

 ful and pleafant Country round about It. There is a Sandy 

 Bay, with a little Ifland, before It; but to the Eaftward, as far 

 as the Ras el Hamrah, the Shore is one continued Range of Rocks 

 and Precipices ; among which is the fmall Port of Tagodeite 

 the Siilluco or Collops Tarvtis of the Antients. 



The [^Ras el Hamrah v*=-] Red Cape, commonly called Ma- RaseiHam- 

 bra in our Sea Charts, fhould be the Hippi Tromontoritim of pf'SoS''^" 

 Ttolemy, being a large and confpicuous Head Land, with the^*'"^''*^' 

 Ruins of two fmall Buildings upon It. Half a League to the 

 S. is the Mers el Berber, called, by the Europeans, Port Ge- 

 noefe, where the Malteeje and Italian Cruifers ufed frequently 

 to lye in Ambufli for the Algerines, 'till the Latter, a few Years 

 ago, built a fmall Fort to diftrefs Them. The Stoborrmn Tro. sto-bor- 

 montorium oiTtoleyny will correfpond with the Southern Point J"" ib^d?""' 

 of this Road. 



Four Miles farther, upon the Summit of an Eminence, the Bona.rBiajd 

 Algerines have a Caftle and Garrifon of three Suffrahs : and ^ 

 upon the S. E. Declivity of the fame Hill, is the City Bona , 

 called likewife by the Moors, The [Blaid el ^^- Aneb'] Town 

 of Jujebs, from the Plenty of Them gathered in the Neigh- 

 bourhood. Bona, is without doubt, a Corruption of Hippo or 

 Hippona\ though we are not to look for that antient City here, 

 where the Name is preferved , but among a Heap of Ruins a 

 Mile farther to the South. Leo * * informeth us that Blaid el 

 Atieb, was built out of Thefe Ruins ; and It is certain, if we 

 except one or two of the Streets, made, in the i?(5Wrt// Manner, 

 with Caufeways, there is little befides, but what might have 



* Rcgniim Tunetanum in quatuor Provincias tribuitur : in Ccujlantiuam, quae CoUabeftini, 

 Rufic.i(i>iin, Tacacciam, Hipponem &zc. Urbes continet. I. /• in princip. ** Novam qiian- 

 dam Urbem, in lecundo ab Hjppene Milliario ijfdcm fere lapidibus extruxerunr, qui £on£ 

 civitati detrafti fuerant : nova autem Beld el Huneb^ hoc eft, Ziziphorum civitas eft appel- 

 lata, propter magnum ejus frudtus copiam. J Leo. p.2li. 



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