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The River. A little Way to the Southward of This Village, we crofs a 

 large River , where Mafaniffa was fuppofed to have been 

 drowned in His Flight from Bocchar. Livjy ' tells us, that the 

 Latter was afraid to ford It , difcouraged no Doubt by the 

 Depth and Rapidity of the Stream. For in the Month of Ja- 

 guar/, when it had not rained for feveral Days, we found the 

 Channel very deep, of an uneven Bottom, and which we had 

 much Difficulty to pafs over. A little on the other Side of 

 This River, we come into thofe open Fields, where Bocchar killed 

 forty fix of the fifty Perfons, who attended Majanijfa. 

 Gurba , The t Gurha, the Curohis or CuruMs of the Antients, is feven 

 S^p'/^D. Leagues to the S. W. by W. of Cfyhea. It feems to have been 

 gii^A.p.zy. ^ confiderable Place in former Times, though the Ruins of a 

 large Aquedud, and of the Cifterns which received the Water, 

 are the only Antiquities It can boaft of at prefent. I was in- 

 formed that the Port, and a great Part of This as well as of 

 the neighbouring City Nahal, were deftroyed by the Sea ; and 

 that fome Traces of each of Them might be feen in calm and 

 clear Weather. A little Brook runs by Gurha to the Weft ward, 

 where we have the Remains of a Stone Bridge; and, at a Farm- 

 Houfe hard by It, there is an Altar with the following Infcrip- 

 tion, which might have formerly belonged to It. 



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C .HELVIO C. FARN. HONORA 



TO AEDILI II VIR - - - - 



- - -CVRAT. ALIMENT. DISTRIB. 



OB INSIGNES LIBERALITATES 



IN REMPVB. ET IN GIVES 



AMOREM VIRO BONO 



COL. FVLVIA CVRVBIS DD. PP. 



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I Mafanijfa cum quinquaginta haud amplius equitibus per anfradus mentis ignotos fe- 

 quentibus fe eripuit. Tenuit tamen veftigia Bocchar ; adeptufque eum patentibus frefe 

 Clupeam urhem cattipis, ita circumdedir, ut pr^eter quatuor cquites, omnes ad unum intcrfe- 



cerit amnis ingens fugientes accepit is finis Bocchari fequendi fuit, nee ingredi flumen 



aufOf nee fe &c. Liy. 1. 29. 5- 32. 



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