1 1 8 Geographical Ohfervations in the Inland Country 



Tezzoute, three Leagues nearly in Circumference. We have 

 here a great Variety of Antiquities; for beiides the magnificent 

 Remains of feveral of the City Gates, (which according to a 

 Tradition of the ArahSy were forty in all, and that when the 

 Place was in Profperity, It could fend out of each Gate forty 

 thoufand armed Men J we have the Seats and upper Part of 

 an Amphitheatre ; the Frontifpiece of a \it^\^\^M.Ionich Temple, 

 dedicated to EJculapui ; a large oblong Chamber, with a great 

 Gate on each Side, intended perhaps for a triumphal Arch; and 

 The [CubF el \y-':j^'] Ar-rofah'] Cupola of the Bride ,' as the 

 Arabs call a little beautiful Maufoleum, built in the Fafliion of a 

 Dome, fupported with Corinthian Pillars. 

 M.LAMBE- Thefe and feveral other Edifices of the like Nature, fuffici- 

 H'sZexc"!^. ently demonftrate the Importance This City muft have been of 

 i^c. p.i<J- -j^ former Times ; which alone, without the Authority of In- 

 fcriptions, might be a prefumptive Argument for what hath 

 been already fuggefted, that Tezzoute or Lerha was the 

 Lamhefe of the Antients. The particular Notice taken of 

 Lamheje in the Itinerary, fuppofeth It to be the moft confide- 

 rable City of That Part of the Country, where It was fituated: 

 and the refpe^live Diftances and Directions laid down by the 

 fame Author, in conduding us thither, point out to us the Si- 

 tuation of It in general, whereby It made with The'vefte and 

 Sitifi an irregularKind of Triangle, whofe Height was to be deter- 

 mined by the Diftance of Cirta. Ttolemy indeed by placing Sitifi 

 to the Southward of Cirta and Lamhefa, or in the Situa- 

 tion of the prefent The'vefle, giveth each of thefe Places a Po- 

 iition very different to what They are placed in : however, by 

 informing us, that the Legio Tertia Augufta was ftationed at 

 Lamhefa, He furnifheth us with a Matter of Fadt, and fo far 

 inftrudeth us, that where we can find the Third Legion, as we 

 do here at Tezzoute, there we may look for His Lambeja. We 

 have the following Infcriptions at This Place. 



upon the Friz.e of the Temple of Efculapius. 



AESCVLAPIO ET SALVTI IMP. CAES. MARCVS AVRE- 

 LIVS ANTONINVS AVG. PON. MAX. 

 IMP. CAES. LVCIVS AELIVS VERVS AVG. 



DEON- 



