upon the Sea-Co a fl of the Summer Circuit. i j-p 



perpetually draining from the Rocks, and Seats for the weary 

 Labourer; we have little Room to doubt, (from fuch a 

 Concurrence of Circumftances, fo exadly correfponding to the 

 Cave which /^r^i/ placeth fomewhere in This Gulph,) but that 

 the following Defcription is litterally true, notwithftanding the 

 Opinion of fomeCommentators ', who have thought It fidlitious. 



Eft in fece/fu longo locus ; Infula portum, 

 Ejjicit ohje&u laterum : quihus omn'is ah alto 

 Frangitur, inque firms fcindit fefe unda redu6los. 

 Hinc atque hinc vaft^ Rupes, geminique minantur 

 In Coslum fcopuli : quorum fub vert ice late 

 j^quora tut a flent : turn Syhis fcena corufcis 

 'Dejuper, horrentique atrum Nemus imminet Umhra. 

 Fronte fuh adnjerfa IcopuUs pendentibus atrum : 

 Intus y4qu(e dulces ; vivoque fedilta faxo, 

 Njmpbarum T)omus\ &c. Virg. ^n. i. i(^g. 



Cape Bon, the Ras-addar of the Moors, and the Promon-Cape Bon, 

 tory o^ Mercury or Hermes of the Antients, is fituated about toriumTie?- 

 one League to the Northward oi Loii/ha-reah, and eleven tOpT^'o^^V. 

 the E. S. E. o^Cape Ziheeb. I was well informed, that, feme- 

 times in fair Weather, They could difcover the Mountains of 

 Sicily from This Place. The two Zembne or Zowa-moores lye The zowa- 

 underThis Promontory ; the Smaller one not far from the Shore, ™'^°^^'' 

 but the Larger is at four Leagues Diftance, in a W.N. W. Directi- 

 on, from It. The fruitful Tra£t of Land that reacheth from hence 

 to Solyman, is called The [J-^"^] T)achhul^ Corner: being cul-r/j-^Dackhui. 

 tivated by the feveral Branches of the Welled Seide. 



Five Leagues to the S. by E of Cape Bon, is t Clybea, theciybea, rhe 

 Clupea or Cl/pea of the Latins and the A2nis of thQCrcecians^imz^ExL 

 This City was built upon the fmall Promontory Taphitis \ which ^6]'^^].^'.^ a. 

 being in the Figure of a Shield ^ or Hemifphere, gave Oc-^'"'^' ^* 

 cafion to the Name. There is nothing Handing of This anti- 

 ent City: for theCaftle is a modern Stru6lure ; and what They 

 now c2i][Clyhea, is amiferableKnot of Hovels, at a Miles Diftance. 



1 Eft TBTRiS oia. i.e. fidus fecandum poeticam Hcentiam locus. Ne autem videretur pc- 

 nitiis a vcritaic difcedere, Hifpanienfis Carthaginis portumdefcripfit. Cazterum hunc locum in 

 Africa nufqiiam effe conftat. Serv. in Joe. Fidus hie locus ell, & (ubiatus ab Homero (Odyf, 

 13. 95.) aliqua ex parte ad formam Ithacenfts Poitus. Pomp. Sab. ibid. Mr. Addilon (p. 71. 

 of his Travels) fuppofeth that Virgil might have taken the Plan from the Bay of Naples. 

 2 Exc. p. 7. F. 



3 In Clypd fpec'iem curyat'ts turr'ibiis A[p\s. Sil. Ital. L, 3. 1.243. 



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