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IS2 Geographical Obfewations 



- ' - - ^^ devi&te Carthaginis arces 

 Trocuhuere, jacentqiie, infauflo in littore, tiirres 

 Ever fa ; quantum ilia metus, quantum ilia lahorum 

 Urhs dedit infultans Latio (;^ Laurentibus ar-vis ; 

 Nunc paj/im, vix relliquias vix nomina fervans, 

 Ohruitur, propriis non agnofcenda ruinis. ^c. 



' Solatia fati 



Carthago Mariujque " tulit, f ar iter que jacentes 

 Ignovere Dies Lucan. de Bell. Civ. L. 1. 1. pr. 



Carthage, a- TUnv " feciTis to makc the antient Carthage much bigeer, than 



iout fifteen ^ t-i t. 



Miles h! cir- wheii It was a Roman Colony ; which , according to what 

 Livy ' informeth us, was twenty three Miles in Circuit. Strabo 

 circumfcribeth the Teninfula, upon which Carthage was built, 

 with cccLX Furlongs, or forty five Miles, but doth not affign 

 any Number for the Extent of the City. According to an 

 Eftimate made upon the Spot, I judge the Teninfula to be 

 about thirty Miles round, and that the City may have taken 

 up near half that Space ; and more, I prefume. It could never 

 lay Claim to. For Livy ^ telleth us, that Carthage was twelve 

 Miles nearly from Tunes \ which is the Diftance that ftill 

 fubfifts betwixt This City, and a Fragment (we meet with near 

 the greater Cifterns) of the old Wall of Carthage. And as there 

 arefeveral Salt Pits immediately under This Wall, which reach 

 as far as the S. E. Shore, Carthage could not have extended 

 any farther to the W. or S. unlefs thefe Pits, (which cannot well 

 be fuppofed,) were received within the City. Nay, liTolyhius ^ is 

 to be credited, who maketh the Diftance betwixt Tunes and 

 Carthage fifteen Miles, the Boundary This Way will be thrown 

 farther backward, and we may be induced to fufpe6l, that the 

 Wall I have mentioned, was eredted by the Romatis, and took in 

 a greater Space of the Teninfula^ than might be the ^rea of 

 the antient City. A large Morafs, that was formerly the Port, 

 continues to be the fame Limit, It always was, to the N. and N. W. 



I Mariiis curfum in y^fricam direxit, inopemque vitam in Tugurio rulnarum Carthagln't- 

 f «Jjtt?» toleravit : cum M^n/w afpiciens Cartbaginem, ilia intuensMrfj;«w, alter alteri poifenc 

 clle folatio. Veil. Paterc. 2 Co/okw Carthago Magn* invefllgtjs Carthaginis. Exc. p. 22. A. 

 3 Carthago in chcmtw viginti tria millia pafTus patens. Liv. Epit. L. yi. 4 Sc'ipio — in 

 Cartbaginem intentus occupat relidum fuga ciiftodum Tuneta (abeftab Carthagine duodecim 

 millia ferme paffuum) locus quu in operibus, turn fuapte natura tutus, & qui ab Carthagine 

 confpici & prebere ipfe profpeftum quum adUrbem, turn ad circumfuium mare urbi polTet. 

 Id, 1.30. 5. p. J O 3 TW a^j^H ^^ <? Kc(/i;\«i"ov®' w? wrtTii' fiW/ sasO^W. Poljb. 1.14. 



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