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placeth the Mouth of It 10'. only to the weft ward of Car^ 

 thage ; a Situation which falls in with the Sanftuary of Seedy 

 u4mmer Buck-tewahy where there is the antient Bed of a River, 

 with a large Mountain, (perhaps one of thofe taken Notice of 

 hy Tofyh'ms") that ends in a Precipice above It. 

 Tokemofiu- It maybe farther obfervedj that in travelling from This 

 Sanctuary to Gellah, we fee difperfed all over the interjacent 

 Plain, Pine- Apples, Trunks of Trees, and other Tokens of large 

 Inundations. Belides the Channel likewife juft now mentioned, 

 we pafs over others, which, to all Appearance, muft have been 

 at one time or other, either the natural or accidental Beds of 

 This River. For as the whole Extent of Shore, from Cartloage 

 to Torto 'Farina^ is little higher than the ordinary Level of the 

 Sea, lying expofed to the E. and N. E. Winds ; It is poffible 

 that the Mouth of This, as well as of other Rivers, we read of, 

 in a like Situation, might have been from Time to Time flopped 

 up, as we find It actually was in the Time of Tolyhim^^ and 

 that after being obliged to find out one new Channel after ano* 

 ther, as each of them in It's Turn was filled up, or the Com- 

 munication with It cut off. It retired at laft under Cape Ztheeh^ 

 where thofe Winds could give It no Difturbance. Yet even 

 under This Situation, there is Room to apprehend, that in a 

 few Years the Channel will return again to the Southward. 

 For the navigable Pond is every Day more and more choaked 

 The Shallow- Up with Sllmc, and the Mouth (or Bar in the Mariners Stile) 

 "bL"^ '^' of the River, which, 'till of late, admitted VelTels of the greateft 

 Burthen, is at prefent too Ihallow to receive one of Their 

 Cruifers of thirty Guns, unlefs It be before-hand difcharged 

 of It's Lumber and Ballaft. 

 Boo-niarter, Such Revolutions as thefe having befallen the Bagrada y 

 cr ' iTYKH. Utica, which, by antient Authors, was fituated to the North- 

 p."?: Vc.' ward of It, is now to be enquired after in the contrary Diredlion. 

 &/p.zz^A'.This City then, fomuch wanted in the Old Geography of This 

 Country, and which Bochart interprets [sp'n;; jitica'\ The 

 antient City, is placed by Ttolemy 30'. to the S. and xo'. to the 

 E. of the Promontory of ApUo. But This is a Situation too 



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