upon the Sea-Coaft of the Summer Circuit. 1 4.7 



-killed by Regulus ' upon the Banks of It. The nioft diftant 

 Branches have been already defcribed in the Country of the 

 Hen-ne'ifhah ; which, with other conliderable Additions from 

 the Wed el Boule , Scilliana and fome other Rivulets of the 

 Frig-eaJj, fwell the Stream to the Bignefs of the Ifis united 

 to the Cherwell. The late Geographers, in placing the Courfe 

 of This River almoft directly N. and S. are in the like Miftake 

 with Ttolemy, who deriveth It from the Mampfarus Mons 

 in Long. 3 j°. and Lat. ^7^ 5-0'. a Pofition by no Means to be 

 reconciled with the Situation of the Eaftern Parts of This 

 Kingdom. 



The Me-jerdah, during Ifs whole Courfe, continueth to ueGiuaiitycf 

 run winding through a rich and fertil Country ; becoming dth!^""^"" 

 thereby fo well faturated with Soih, that It is of the fame 

 Complexion with the Nile, and appears to have no lefs the 

 Property of making Encroachments upon the Sea. To this 

 Caufe we may attribute the many Changes and Alterations 5 

 which appear to have been made in the Channel of It : and 

 that an open Creek of the Sea, into which the Me-jerdah, 

 no longer than a Century ago, difcharged Itfelf, is now circum- 

 fcribed by the Mud and become a large Pond or Anti-Harbour, 

 as we may call It, to Torto Farina. 



That the Me-jerdah , in the Time of Scipio , lay betwixt ne changes 

 Carthage and the Caflra Cornelia, and not where we find It'Lt' ^^'"'' 

 at prefent , appears , as well from the landing the Ambafla- 

 dours', after their Departure from Carthage , at the River 

 Bagrada ; (the neareft Place we may fuppofe for that Purpofe) 

 as from Curio's * leaving Rehilus at the fame River, whilft He 

 Himfelf is faid to have advanced farther to View the Caflra 

 Corneliana. And agreeably to thefe Circumftances, Ttolemy 



I Nota eft, in Punicis belHs ad flumen Bagradam zRegulo Imperatore baliftis tormentifque, 

 ut oppidum aliquod, expugnata Serpens cxx pedum longitudinis. Pellis ejus maxillxque 

 ufque ad bcllum Nununtinum duravere Roma: in templo. Plin. Hift. Nat. 1. 8. cap. 14. 

 Liv. Epit. 18. Val. Max. i. 8. 19. 2 Bochart deduceth the Name from NDDIJ Brailha^ 

 a Pond. Vid. l.i. cap. 24. agreeably to the Defcription of the Poet. 



Turbidus arentes lento pede fulcat arenas 



Bragada, non ullo Lyb'icis in fimbus amne 



Vtdus limofas extendere lat'tus undas, 



Et {[agmntcvado patulos invoLvere campos. Sil. It. 1. d. 1. 140. 

 3 Legati petierunt a magiftratibus, ut naves micterent, quse fe profequerentur. Dat^e trire- 

 mes duK cum ad Bagradam flumen perveniflent, unde Romano, Caftra confpiciebantur, Car- 

 thaginem rediere. L'tv. 1. xxx. 5-iO' 2 Bidui iter progrefTus (O<riofc. ex y^quilaria) ad 

 Rumen Bagr ad am pervenit: ibi C. Can'mium Rebilum Legatum cum Legionibus reliquit: ipfc 

 cum equitatu antecedit ad Caftra exploranda Cor«f/f<<«rf. C<e/. de BelJ. Cir. 1.2. 5-22. 



O o X placeth 



