I f^ Geographical Ohfervations 



..... RORISir TOTIVSQVE DIVINAE DOMVS EIVS CIVITAS 2VCCHARA 

 FECIT ET DEDICAVIT. 



The Antiquity Tlic Aquedu6t appears to be of much greater Antiquity than 



^(if'^^^'^'the Temple, having been probably a Work of the Carthagi- 

 nians ; for. It will be difficult to conceive, how Carthage could 

 well fubfift without fuch a Convenience. Befides the publick 

 Refervoirs I have mentioned, there hath been great Provifion 

 indeed made to receive the rain Water, by building all or moft 

 of their Houfes upon Cifterns. At Saka-rah likewife, whither 

 the Suburbs may be fuppofed to have extended, there is, for 

 the Space of three Miles, a Continuation of Channels and 

 Cifterns, contrived, as It appears, by omitting here and there 

 a Brick in the lower Part of their Walls, to admit Water by 

 Percolation ; a Method we find alfo made ufe of at Gibraltar. 

 It will be difficult to determine, w^hat extraordinary Supplies 

 thefe Cifterns might have afforded ; however. It is very cer- 

 tain, that at Algiers, a City built with the fame Conveniences 

 as Carthage, the Rain Water will rarely fupply the neceflary 

 Expences of a Family : much lefs, when fuch a Multitude of 

 Elephants, Horfes and other Animals, as were conftantly kept 

 at Carthage, are to be added to the Account. 



The Guietta. Eight Milcs to the W. S. W. of Seedy Boo-feide , the Cape 

 Carthage of our Sea Charts, we have the Guietta ; for fo the 

 Italians feem to have tranilated The \Halclz \y-^=-'\ el Wed^ 

 Throat of the River, as the Inhabitants call the little Channel 

 of Communication betwixt the Lake of Tunis and the Sea. 

 The Tunifeens have, on each Side of this Channel, a tolerable 

 good Caftle, contrived as well for the Security of this narrow 

 PalTage, as of the Road to the E. and S. E. Within the Lake 

 likewife, half a League from Tunis, and about two from the 

 Guietta, there is another Caftle , built upon a fmall Ifland; 

 which, from the little Danger there is of being attacked that 

 Way by Sea, hath been for a long Time neglected. The Place 

 continueth in the fame dirty State and Condition, that It ap- 

 pears to have been in, in the Time oi Abulfeda '. 



The Lake. ThlsLakc was formerly a deep and capacious Port % big enough 

 to take in a large Navy ; but at prefent, by receiving all the 



I In hoc lacu Tunes eft Infula ad obleftationem & difcutiendum animi masrorem : veram 

 quoad latus ejus, quod ad Tunes fpeftat, eo fordes & immunditiiE coacervantur. y^bulf. uc 

 fupra, 2 Mfj^A ^ K T^ov « ^'. saJ*(W twnt (Kof^ayQr) J)i;)^v7Jt uvai ipetviv, ov rA) STAFNON (B!^»l^/»', 

 ^fiMoimTi TmfTtiTmviy orra iB<j la^t f et^KTce sbAo/ Uofuf TUfud-m, Procop. Bell. Vand. 1. i. cap.iy. 



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