i62 Geographical Obfervattons 



anonymous Town ' that Ctefar vilited in His Way toAdrumetuM, 

 Hamain-et, j^qq infomieth US that Hamam-et was built about His Time '• 



or the City of , . . . . ' 



Wild Pige- but the flourifliing Condition It enjoys at prefent , is of no 

 longer Date , than the latter End of the laft Century : the 

 Pillars, Blocks of Marble, and fome few other Tokens of An- 

 tiquity, that are here and there to be met with, having been 

 brought from CaJJirAfe'ite, the Chit as Siagitana of the Antients. 

 As for the Name, (which, having no fmall Affinity with Adru- 

 metum, might induce Buno \ the Sanjons and others to think 

 It to be fo) It is in all Probability deiived from the Number 

 of \_Hamam r^*^] l^ild Ttgeons , that are bred in the Chffs 

 of the adjacent Mountains. The two following were the 

 only Infcriptions which I found fair and legible. 



VICTORIAE 



ARMENIACAE PARTHICAE 



MEDICAE AVGVSTORVM A. 



SACRVM CIVITAS SIAGI 



TANA DD. PP. 



IMP. CAES. DIVI SEPTIMI SEVERI 



PARTH. ARABICI ADIABENICI 



MAX. BRIT. MAX. FIL. DIVI 



M. ANTONINI PII GERMANCI 



SARMAT. NEPOT. DIVI ANTONINI 



PRONEPOTI DIVI AELI HADRIANI 



ABNEPOTI DIVI TRAIANI PAR. ET 



DIVI NERVAE ADNEPOTI 



M. AVRELIO ANTONINO PIO PEL. 



PAR. MAX. BRIT. MAX. GERM. 



MAX. IMP. III. COS. nil. P.P. - - 



- - CIVITAS SIAGITANORVM DD. PP. 



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I C^far Clupeam dafle prxtervehitur j inde Neapol'm, complura prsterea caftella & oppida 

 non longe a mari relinquit. Hirt. Bell. ^fr. 5- 2. 2 Hamam-et ante paucos annos a Maho- 

 metanif extrudunn, hujus incolae miferrimi &c. y. Leo. p. 121. 3 Vid. Quv. Geogr. cum 

 aothButtonis. p.394. /id- Geogr. Vol. iv, p. 173. 



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