upon the Sea-Coaft of the Summer Circuit. i f i 



after Sc'ifto had blocked up the old ; and might be the £ame that 

 was called the Mandrac'umi ' in the Time of Trocopius. 



The sreateft Part oi Carthage hath been built upon three 7>^^ situation 



^ . t r 1-1 ""^ Ruins of 



Hills^ fomewhat inferiour in Elevation to Thole upon which Carthage. 

 Ro7tie was ereded. Upon That which oveiiooketh the S. E. 

 Shore, there is the y4rea of a fpacious Room, with feveral 

 fmaller ones hard by It. Some of Them have had tefTcllated 

 Pavements; but neither the Defign nor the Materials are 

 worthy of our Notice. The Byrja^ I prefume, had formerly r/;^ Byrfa. 

 This Situation. In rowing along the Sea Shore, the common 

 Sewers difcover Themfelves in feveral Places; which, beins^'" "'"'""' 

 well built and cemented at firft , Time hath not in the leaft 

 injured or impaired. The Cifterns are other Structures, which '^'" ^'f"^""- 

 have fubmitted the leaft to the general Ruin of This City. Be- 

 fides Thofe appertaining to particular Houfes, there were two 

 Sets belonging to the Publick; the greater whereof, which 

 was the grand Refervoir for the Aquedu6l , lay near the 

 weftern Wall of the City, and confifted of more than twenty 

 contiguous Cifterns, each of them about a hundred Foot long, 

 and thirty broad. Thelefter is in a higher Situation, near the 

 Cothon ; having been contrived to colkft the Rain Water which 

 fell upon the Top of It, and upon fome adjacent Pavements, 

 made for that Purpofe. This might be repaired with little Ex- 

 pence; thefmall earthen Pipes, through which the Rain Water 

 was conduced, wanting only to be cleanfed. 



Befides Thefe , there are no other Tokens left us of the rw Ant\qui- 

 Grandeur and Magnificence of This antient City, and Rival of rhagj 

 Rome: we meet with no triumphal Arch, orfumptuous Piece 

 of Architecture; no Granite Pillars, or curious Entablatures; 

 but the broken Walls and Structures that remain to this Day, 

 are either built in the Gothick Manner, or according to That 

 of the later Inhabitants. The following Lines, preferved by 

 M'. Balzac \, very juftly defcribe the prefent Condition of This 

 Place. 



iy^'iMvlvVt). l.i. c. 20. 2 Exc. p. 7. D. Fabellam de corio in tenuiffimas partes diflfecto, 

 undc Byrfx. fadum fic nomen {L'lV. I.34. 5- 61. Vhg. JEn.i. 371 &c.) dodi pridem explofe- 

 runt, & monuerunt a Gr-em Bupcrai- dici pro mi*3 Bofra, ad vitandam xaxofui'joo' ; quia Gr£Cii 

 LingUE genius non patitur ut S & R continuentur. Tale o-hmt nemus pro k'^C^N ajla. Bofra 

 Hebrxis eft munimentum, a verbo"lV3 munire. Bocb. Chau. l.i.cap.24. ^ In His Dijfertat. 

 XXV. Chrefiienne & morale : in Imitation of the xv Canto ofTajfo's Gierufalemme . 



G'tace I'alta Cartago, e a pcna i fegni 



De I'alte ftte ruinc H lido fcrba. &c. 



P p X - - - ^a 



