Of the Summer Circuit. i6s 



Thimida and Mezel-je-mehie, the Theudalis and Thiniffa ' Thimida,r/;^^ 

 of the Antients, are two Villages ntuated upon the Lake of li^.^x^. p- 

 Bizerta ; This, at three Miles Diftance to the S. E. the Other, ^'- Mcid-' 

 at fcven to the S. W. of that City. There are fome FootftepsTniKissA. 

 of Antiquity at both Places ; and near the former, the Lake 

 is confiderably contradled, forming Itfelf (as it were) into Two, ^^ 

 whereof the Southermoft may be taken for the St far a Talus ^^^^'^''^^- 



-^ TES. E\C, P. 



the other for the Hipponites of the old Geography. h- b..c.' 



Jthhel Iskell, a remarkable round Mountain, the Cirna, I jibbei iskeii, 

 prefume, of the Antients, lyeth, on the S. W. iide of thefe£.vc.p.?4!*B! 

 Lakes, five Leagues from Bizerta. At a little Diftance from 

 It to the S. E. is Matter, the Oppidum Materenfe, rather perhaps t Matter,r/&e 

 than the antient Madaura, which, according to St. Aiigu[iine\ Nil^eieSe. 

 muft have been farther from Carthage. It is, at prefent, ^'^'''•P"- • 

 fmall Village, fituated upon a riling Ground, in the midft of a 

 fruitful Plain : and a little below It, there is a Rivulet, which 

 emptieth Itfelf into the Sifara Talus. 



t Ten Leagues to the S. W. of Matter, is the City Beja orBay-jah, Ut 

 Bay-jah , which by the Name and Situation fliould be thevACEN^E 

 Vacca' oi Salluft, the Oppidum F^agenfe QiTliny, the bafa* ofSc"'" ^* 

 Tlutarch , and the Kaccenfmm Ordo Splendtdtffimus, as the 

 Title feems to run in the firft of the following Infcriptions. 

 Cellarius^ placeth It very juftly towards the N. E. of Cirta or 

 Conftantina, but doth not quote His Authority. However 

 fuch a Stuation feems to be implyed in the Defcriptions we 

 have of It ; viz. that It lay to the right Hand, (as Keffov Sicca 

 Veneria did to the left) of the Road^, which the Romans com- 

 monly made ufe of in their way to Numidia. After It re- 

 volted, Metellus^ is faid to have departed from His Winter 

 Quarters in the Evening, and to have arrived before It, about 

 the third Hour of the following Day : which Journey, conli- 



I Vide Agathoddmon'ts Tabulam Ptolemakam & Cellar. Geogr. Ant. I. 4. Cap. 4. p. 105-. 

 2 Dum mihi redudo a Madauris, in qua vicina Urbe jam coeperam literaturae atque oratorlae 

 percipiendse gratia peregrinari, longhiquiorts apud Cartbaginem peregr'ination'is fumtus prapara- 

 bantur. D. Auguft. 1. 2. Confefs. Cap. 3. 3 Erat haud longe ab eo itinere quo Metellus 

 pergcbat, oppidum Numidarum, nomine Tacc a, forum rerum venalium totius regni maxime 

 celebratum, ubi & incolere & mercari confuevcrunt Italici generis multi mortales. Sail. 

 Bell. Jug. 5- JO. 4 ^pspS/ 3 ^k-yki, TreA/f [Kya.'hm &c. P/af. in Mario, p. 409. j Va.ga a Cirtx in 

 ortum xitivum diftat. Cellar. I. 4.. Cap. j. p.114. 6 Vid. Not. 3. Sail. Bell. ^ug. ^.60. 



7 Metellus, poftquam de rebus Vacc^e adis comperit Legionem cum qua hicmabat & 



quam plurimos potctt: I\lumidas equites pariter cum occafu folis expedites educit; & poftera 



die circiter horam tertiam provenit in quandam planitiem docet oppidum Vaccam non 



amplius mille pafTuum abefle. Id. ^.71. 



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