a Triumphal 

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128 Geographical Ohfevvations in the Inland Country 



to all Appearance, It feems to be an extraordinary Provifion 

 of Nature for the Admiffion of This River, which mull have 

 otherwife formed a prodigious Lake, and thereby laid a great 

 Part of the neighbouring Country under Water, before It could 

 have found out any other Way to the Sea. 

 n^Kuhsof Among the Ruins to the S. W. of the Bridge, upon the 

 narrow Strip of Land juft now defcribed, we have the greateft 

 Part of a triumphal Arch, called The \_Caffir Gou/ab] Caftle 

 (as They interpret It) of the Giant, confifting of three Arches ; 

 the middlemoft whereof is the moft fpacious. All the Mould- 

 ings and Frizes are curioufly embellillied with the Figures of 

 Flowers, Battle Axes, and other Ornaments. The Corinthian 

 Pilalters, erected on each fide of the grand Arch, are pannelled, 

 like the fide Polls of the Gates of the City, in a Gufto, as flir as 

 I have obferved , peculiar to Cirta ; but the Pillars of the 

 fame Order, which fupported the Pediment, are broken down 

 and defaced. 



Without the Precinds of the City, under the great Preci* 

 pice, we meet with the following fepulchral Infcriptions. The 

 firll of Them, which is upon a Cippus, with the Figure of a 

 loaded Ox in Baffo Relienjo above It, and of a Crab below It, 

 maketh one of the Steps, as we defcend to the lukewarm Springs 

 of the Marah-hutt Seedy Meemon^ who lyeth there interred. 



Infcr'ipttons^ 

 &C. teloro the 

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