upon the Sea-Coaft of the Summer Circuit. 1 6 1 



Leavina; Gurha five Leagues to the N. E. we come to NahaL Nabai , rke 



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a very thriving and induitnoiis Town^ which hath been long fa- £«• p-i^d. 

 mous for It's Potteries. It is built, in a low Situation, at a Mile's 

 Diftance from the Sea Shore, and about a Furlong to theWeft ward 

 of the -M^tx^ntNe atolls, which appears to have been a large City, 

 without taking in what is fuppofed to have been gained by the Sea. 

 Here are a great Number of Infcriptions upon Stones of fix 

 Foot in Length and three in Breadth; but They are either 

 fo unfortunately deficed, or filled up with Rubbifii and Mortar, 

 that It required more Time, than my Guides would allow me, 

 to copy Them. On the Banks of the little Brook that runs 

 through the old City, we have a Block of white Marble, with a 

 Wolf, curioully reprefented in BaJJo Relievo, upon It. 



TravelHng, for the Space of two Leagues, through a rugged Hamam-ct, 

 Road, delightfully fliaded with Olive Trees, we arrive at Ha- 

 mam-et:, which hath been miftaken by feveral Authors for the 

 fo much difputed ^drumetum. It is a fmall but opulent City, 

 compactly built upon a low Promontory, which an Eneni}^, 

 efpecially by Land, would find great Difficulty to attack. But as 

 ThisCircumftance ' will better agree with i^^rcXV^, placed at fbme 

 Diftance from It to the Eaftward, fo there are other Circum- 

 ftances relating to Adrumetum, which will by no Means an- 

 fwer to This Place. For Hamam-et is built fo clofe to the Sea, 7£r^Slt 

 and hath to the Landward fo rugged a Situation, that there 

 would be, (This Way particularly,) the utmoft Danger and Diffi- 

 culty to approach It ; much more to be carried round about It, as 

 defar is faid to have been '. Neither have we a View, either 

 from This City or the Road before It, of theCoaft oWlybea' : 

 all which Circumftances agree with the Situation of Herckla. 

 The Author likewife of the It'merar)/ placeth Adrumetimi, not 

 only ccccxL Furlongs fwm Neapolis\ but lxxxv R. Miles, 

 (i. e. at the fame Diflance with Cfypea,) from Carthage. Now, 

 provided Adrumetum, is to be fixed at Hamam-et, Neapolis 

 will be fituated l Miles too near It in the one Cafe ; as Car- 

 thage will be XX x, (i.e. more than one Third of the given 

 Diftance,) in the other. Hamam-et therefore may be ra- 

 ther the Siagul of Ttolemjy which was probably one of thofe 



I Oppidi (Adrttmeti ) egregia municio , difficilifque ad oppugnandum erat ac- 

 ceffus. idirt. Bell. Afr. z Cd,far circum oppidum vedus, natura loci perfped^, rcdit in 

 Caftra. Id. 5-3- 3 A Clupca fecundum oram maritimam cum equitatu Adrumeti, Cn. Pifo 

 cum Maurorum circiteriii millibus apparuit. Id. 5.3. 4 Ex(. p. 28. A. p. 27- E. &c. 



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