upon the Sea-Coaft of the Summer Circuit, 14? 



torium Candidum, befides the Colour of It and the Tradition 

 of the fame Name to This Day, we have This further to urge, 

 that Hippo "Diarrhytus, according to the Defcriptions o^iMelaExc^.i^.E. 

 and Winy, lyeth in the very Gulph, which is formed by xhis^""^"^"'"'' 

 Cape and That of Apollo. If then It may be prefumed that 

 Tulchrum and Candidum are Synonimous Terms, we want no 

 farther Proof that This was alfo the Tromontorium Tulchrum. 



Befides, Lii;/ informeth us, that when Scip'io was in Sight ^'''^'^''P-P"1- 

 of the Promontory oi Mercury, (or Cape Bon as It is now called) 

 He did not think fit to dired His Courfe thither, but the fame 

 Wind (an Eafterly one, I fuppofe, from the hazy Quality of 

 It,) continuing, He ordered that fome other convenient Place 

 fiiould be pitched upon to Land at \infra~\ helow , or (as I 

 conjefture) to the Weftward. But as there are no other Pro- 

 montories, belides That of Apollo and the Candidum in This 

 Direftion, there is no fmall Probability that the Tromontortum^ 

 Tulchrum and Candidum were the fame. Liiiy indeed men- 

 tions another Promontory ' in the Bay of Carthage , where 

 Scipio kept His Winter Quarters ; which fome Perfons perhaps 

 may urge to have been the Tulchrum here difputed. But as 

 This Promontory [or Gellah according to the prefent Namel 

 maketh the northern Point of the Haven of Utlca, there would 

 have been then no Occafionfor ordering HisFleet toThat Place'; 

 a Circumftance doubtlefs which fuppofeth It to be at fome 

 Diftance from the Tromontorium Tulchrum, where He landed. 

 Xylander however, as He is quoted by Sir Walter Rawleigh, p. 9^3. 

 fuppofeth the Place to have been Cape Bon: which being 

 without Queftion the Tromontory of Mercury , cannot be in- 

 filled upon; inafmuch as Livy Himfelf acquainteth us that 

 Scipio did not Land there , but at fome other Place [infra'] 

 helow It. Now as infra cannot be fuppofed to imply a fouthern 

 Direftion, as well from the Difficulty that Scipio would have 

 had in landing upon the Eaftern Shore oi Africk, as for the 

 Neceffity there would be afterwards to pafs by Tunis and Car- 

 thage in His intended Journey towards JJtica, (too daring an 

 Enterprize certainly at this Time) fo there are not wanting 



ceflTum petere jubet. Vento eodem ferebantur Sc'ipo quod efTet proximum Promontorium 



percundacus, quum PtTLCHRi Promontorium id vocari audiffet : placet omen, inquir, 

 hue dirigite naves. Eo cladis decurrit : copiae omnes in terram cxpoficce funt. T. Liv. 

 1. 29. C. 27. I Sup'io caftia Hiberna in Promontono, quod tenui jugo continent! (prope 

 Vticam) adhaercns in aliquantum maris fpatium extcnditur, communit. &c. Id. ibid. ?. ay. 

 (2) Jam enim (expofitis ncmpe copijs) Scipio clafle Vticam milfa &c. Id. ibid. ?. 28. 



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