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Authorities for rendering It, as I have fuppofed, to the Weft- 

 ward. Thus the Courfe of Saihng from the Straits o^ Gibraltar 

 to the Le'vant, is called going up the Mediterranean Sea ; as in 

 returning from thence to Gibraltar, we are faid to fail down. 

 Virgil ' likewife, in placing Italy betwixt the Adriatick and 

 Tyrrhene Seas, and lituating the Latter {infra) helow It, 

 maketh ufe of infra, in the fame Senfe with Li'vy , to denote 

 a Poiition to the Weftward. 

 Bizei ta. The t Eight Miles to the S. by W, of Cape Blanco, at the Bottom 

 rutu""Diar-ofa large Gulph, is th^ City Bizert a, pleafantly lituated upon 

 Zamo.' Exc. a Caual, betwixt an extenlive Lake and the Sea. It is about 

 c'p.'4.p."24; a Mile in Circuit, defended by feveral Caftles and Batteries, the 

 • p-ij.D. pj«ij^(^]p^| of which are towards the Sea. Bizerta is a Corrup- 

 tion of the Hippo Diarrhytus oxZaritus of the Antients, though 

 the prefent Inhabitants derive It from their own Language^ 

 affirming It to be Ben-fJjertd \_^A e>0 The Offspring of a 

 Canal or Rivulet. Though This Etymology cannot be received 

 yet it is ingenious enough , as it in fome Meafure falleth in 

 with the Meaning of the Diarrhytus of the Greeks, and with 

 the Aquarum Irrigua, as That Appellation feems to have been 

 tranllated by Tliny. 

 The Lake. For thc Lake, upon which Bizerta is lituated, hath an open 

 Communication with the Sea ; and, according to an Obferva- 

 tion of the Younger Tliny"-, is either continually receiving a 

 brisk Stream from the Sea, or difcharging one into It. In the 

 hotter Seafons (nay fometimes when the Weather is calm and 

 temperate in Winter,) the fame Thenomenon that hath been 

 taken Notice ' of betwixt the Atlantic Ocean, and the Medi- 

 terranean Sea, is to be obferved betwixt the Miditerranean 

 Sea and this Lake ; for what the Lake lofeth at thefe Times in 

 Vapour, is proportionably fupplied from the Sea ; which then 

 runneth very briskly into the Lake, to make up the Equili- 

 hrium. The like happens when the Winds are Northerly, 

 whereby a great Quantity of Water is ufually accumulated upon 

 the Southern Coaft of thefe Seas. But when the Winds are 



I An mare, quod Supra, memorcm ; quodque alluit infra ? Virg. Georg. 2. I.i j8. 

 Supra i. e. ad partem fuperiorem, hoc eft orientem vcrfusadVenctias. infra i.e. a parte inferl- 

 ori ; hoc eft mare Tyrrhenum, quod inferum vocant, occidentem verfus. Vid. B. Afcenfti 

 & Donati Annor. in locum. 2 Eft in Africa Hipponenfis colonia, mari proxima : adjacct 

 ei navigabile ftagnum ex quo in modumfluminisaeftuarium emergir, quod vice alterna^prouc 

 ffiftus aut reprefiEit aut impulfit, nunc infertur mari, nunc redditur ftagno. P/i«. Ep. 33. i.p. 

 sidCmmum. 3 Vid. Phil. Tranf. N». 189. p. ^66. low//;. Abridg. Vol. 2. p. loS. 



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