LARIA. 



J ^ 8 Geographical Ohfervattons 



there are the Figures of Horfes, Birds, Fillies, and iVees fo 

 judicioully intermixed and curiouily inlaid , that They even 

 • appear more gay and lively than fo many tolerable good Paint- 

 ings. The Horfe, the Injignia of the Carthaginians, is difplayed 

 in the bold open Pofture It is obferved to be in upon the 

 y^frican M.tdi2ih\ The Birds are the Hawk and Partridge: The 

 Fifhes, the Gilt-Head ' (called here Jeraffa) and the Mullet : 

 And the Trees, the Palm and Olive. The Contriver perhaps 

 intending by This Choice , to point out the Strength , the 

 Diverfions, the Fifhery, and the Plenty of Dates and Oyl, for 

 which This Country continueth to be, as It hath always been 

 remarkable. Mtfua, by the Ruins, appears to have been of 

 the fame Extent with Htppozarytus ; where likewife there was 

 formerly a capacious Harbour, very convenient for fuch Veffels 

 to touch at, which, from contrary Winds or Diftrefs of Wea- 

 ther, could not reach Carthage or Utica. 



Two Leagues to the E. N. E. of Seedy Doiide , and a little 

 T/Sr i'^V'to the Southward of the Promontory of Mercury, is Lowha- 

 reah, the Aquilaria of the Antients , where Curio ' landed 

 Thofe Troops, that were afterwards cut to pieces ^ by Sabura. 

 There are feveral Fragments of Antiquities at This Place, but 

 Nothing remarkable : however, from the Sea Shore to This 

 Village, which is at half a Miles Diftance, the interjacent Moun- 

 tain, from the4evel of the Sea to the Height of twenty or thir- 

 ty Foot, is all the way very artfully fcouped and hollowed ; 

 fmall Openings being carried up, in feveral Places, to the Surface^ 

 for the Admiffion of frefli Air ; whilll large Pillars and Arches 

 are left Handing, at proper Diftances below, to fupport the Moun- 

 tain. Thefe are the Quarries which Straho "- takes Notice of; 

 from whence the Buildings of Carthage , Utica , and the 

 many other adjacent Cities, might receive Their Materials. 

 Moreover, as the Mountain above is all over fhaded with 

 Trees; as the Arches below lye open to the Sea, having a 

 large Cliff on each Side, with the Illand JEgimurus placed 

 over againft Them; as there are likewife fome Fountains 



I This is the Aurata of the Antients, which Leo miflakes for thcLacda, or Leechy, of 

 the Italians, a Fifli of the Tunny or Mackrel Kind. Pojl tnenfem o^obrem genus quoddam Pifc'is 

 capitur, quod apud Afros Giarapha appellatur, eundetn Pifcem ejfe crediderim, qui Romanis Laccia 

 appellatur. f. Leo. p. 214. 2 C. Curio in Africam profedus ex Sicilia- — apellit ad cum 

 locum qui appellatur .^5/«/4n<«. Hie locus abeft 2 Clupea, pafTuum xxii milliaj habetque 

 non incommodam seftate ftationem ; & duobus eminentibus promontoriis concinetur. C<c/. 

 de Bell. Civil. 1.2. 5- 2,1- 3 Milites ad unum omnes interSciuntur. W. f. 38. 4 Exc. 

 p. 7. F. 



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