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M. TREBIVS RIBI 



ANVS SILONIANVS 



TRIBVN. POPVLI VIXIT 



ANN. LVII. 



S. R I. 



Tuh-urho , a finall Town inhabited by ^ndalufian Moors, Tub-urbo , 

 is fituated upon the Me-jerdah, fix Leagues to the S. E. of ^ 



The TUBUR- 

 BUM Minus. 



Matter, and at the like Diftance to the W. oi Tunis. This S:p^euuw: 

 fhould be the Tuhurhum Minus of the Antients : the Majus 

 (where there feems to have been in Teutingefs Table fome re- 

 markable Temple or Edifice,) lying at too great a Diftance to 

 the Southward. Mahamet , a late Bey of This Kingdom a 

 planted a great Number and Variety of Fruit Trees in the 

 Neighbourhood of It, which He ranged in fo particular a Method, 

 that Each Species, was confined to one Grove, and thereby re- 

 moved from the Influence of Another. Thus the Orange Trees 

 were all placed by Themfelves, without the Admiflion of the 

 Lime or Citron ; and where we gathered the Pear or Apple, 

 we were not to expedl the Peach or Apricot. In the adjacent 

 Valley, where the Me-jerdah conveyeth It's Stream, the fame 

 generous and publick fpirited Prince, ereded, out of the Ruins 

 that were here of an antient Amphitheatre, a large mafly 

 Bridge or Damm, with proper Sluices and Floodgates, to raife 

 the River to a convenient Height , for the refrefliing of His 

 Plantations. But This was too laudable an Invention to fubfift 

 long in Barhary , being at prefent intirely broken down and 

 deftroyed. Upon a Stone, near the Remains of the Amphi- 

 theatre, we have This imperfe6l Infcription. 



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