^6 Geographical Ohfervattons upon the Sea-Coaft 



been the later Work of the Mahojnetans. The preifent Botia 

 The APHRo-^^^^i'^f*^^^ "^^y ^^ I'ather the A'phrodifmm of Ttolemj, placed bv 

 ^isivuExc. Y{\m I y'. to the N. o^ Hippo ; as the Coloma^ which at the fame 

 Time is joyned with It in the Tables, will, according to the Ob- 

 fervation of Cellarius, be an Appellation more fuitable to the 

 Latter '. 

 37>f Ports avd ^OHd^ bcfides the capacious Road before It to the E. had for- 

 £S "^ merly a convenient little Port under the very Walls of It to the 

 Southward ; but by the conftant Difcharge of Ballaft into the 

 one, and the Negledl of cleanfing the other, both are rendred 

 dayly lefs fafe and commodious. However a great Quantity 

 of Corn, Wool, Hides, and Wax, are every Year lliipped off 

 from This Place ; which, by proper Care and Encouragement^ 

 might become the moft flourifhing City in Barhayjy as by re- 

 moving the Rubbilh, repairing the old Ruins, and introducing 

 frefli Water \ It would be one of the moft convenient and de- 

 lightful, y^hulfeda ', in making Bona a Frontier City of His 

 ^frikea, difagrees as well with Mela and Ttolemy, who place 

 the Boundaries of the fame Province feventy Miles farther to 

 the Weft ; as with Tliny and Solinus, who place It nearly at the 

 like Diftance to the Eaft. 

 The Anticvt Bctwixt Bluid el Aneh and Hippo , we have a large marftiy 

 H^ppo. "^ Plain, covered, in fome Parts of It, with Water. It appears to 

 be an Acquifition from the Sea, and might have been formerly the 

 So-jSmah. ^<^^^oi^H^venof //i/?pc>. Boo-jeemah:, which hath a Bridge of 

 Roman Workmanfhip built over It, runs along the Weftern 

 E- Side of This Mar/Jj \ and, being made up of the Wed el T)a-ahy 

 and feveral more Rills that defcend from the Edoiigh * and other 

 adjacent Mountains, is, in the rainy Seafon, frequently fubje6t 

 to Inundations. The many Roots, and Trunks of Trees brought 

 down at Thofe Times by the Torrents, might have firft begun 

 This Addition of Land to the Continent. 



I Succedic apud PtoUnMum Afhrodtjum cohn'ia, dc qua nihil aliunde notum eft ut putare 

 poflis mendum in Ptolemdio eflfe, & voccm Mhuiia^ colonia ex proximo de Hippone Regio 

 verfu in hiinc, qui/f/>/;j-or//^a?« haber, irrepfiffe. Cell. Gcogr.Antiq. I.4. cap. f.p.ii2. 2 Nulli 

 hie fontcsj nulla aqua prsterquam pluvialis, quam illi cifternis quibufdam affervare Iblenc. 

 Ad orientale latus arx quxdam eft munitifGma. jf. Leo, 3 Bonna fita eft in initio regni 

 Afrlkea : habct fluvium modicum qui in mare ab occafu ejus delabitur. AMf. ut fupra. 

 vid. p. 6. 9. & Exc. p. 12. cap. 3. p. 19. cap. 7. & il>id p. 21. cap. 4. p. 23. cap. 27. p-^o. 

 D. p. 31. A. 4 The River Ladogus or Yadog of the modern Geography, vid Atl. Geogr. Vol. 

 IV. p. 184. De la Croix ut Supra. Tom. j. p. 282.) is the fame no doubt with the Boo-jeemahj 

 and feems to be a Corruption of Edough, the Place where It hath It's Sources ; there being no 

 River, that I could be informed of, of the like Name. 



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