of the Summer Circuit. '^ 1 79 



Muftu called at prefent Seedy yibdel-ahhufs from a Mar ah- Sccdy Ab- 



- . ^-r » . 1 • 1 • r 1 del-abbufs or 



htitt of that Name who is there interred, is lituated upon aMusri.Ev.. 

 Plain in View oiDugga and BeiffonSj nt^r the half Way be-?"/&c!^*"^' 

 twixt Teftoure and Keff. We have here the Remains of a 

 beautiful triumphal Arch ; and upon a Stone that might for- 

 merly belong to It, there is This Infcription. 



INVICTISSIMO FELICISSIMOQVE IMPERATORI 



AVGVSTO CAESARI ORBIS PACATORI 

 MVSTICENSIVM DD. 



Vthius Sequefter ' hath been mifinformed in placing This 

 City near the R'wer Bagrada', the neareft Part of which is four 

 Leagues to the N. E. The Author of the Itinerary maketh It 

 XXXIV Ro?nan Miles {Teutingefs Tables only xxxii) or an eafy 

 Days Journey from Sicca Veneria ' ; xcii from Sufetida ' ; 

 Lxxxvi from Carthage^ \ and cxcix (by Tipafa) to Cirta': 

 All which Diftances, confidering the Roads are frequently 

 indirect, will, by taking in the feveral interjacent Places, 

 very well correfpond with the Situation oi Seedy Ah del- ahhufs. 



Keff, the Sicca or Sicca Veneria^ of the Antients, lyeth^efF, ne 

 about five Leagues to the S. W. oiLorhufs, and twenty four to sicca v'e- 

 the W. S. W. of Tunis. It is a Frontier Town, and the Third 

 for Riches and Strength in the whole Kingdom ; though the 

 greateftPart of theCaftlewas, about nine Years ago, blown up 

 in the Civil Wars. The Situation of This City, as the Name 

 [<-*'] imply eth, is upon the Declivity of a Hill ; and near the 

 Centre of It, there is a plentiful Source of Water. The two 

 following Infcriptions are at prefent the only furviving Anti- 

 quities of This noted Place. 



1 Bagrada Africs,]^^tiO]p^'\dnmMu(ii, &c. 2. Exc. p. 27. A. ^ Uid. E. 4. Ibid. A. 

 ^ P. 26. E. 6 Sammi viri Jo. Seldenus de D'th Sir'ts Syntagma II. Cap.vii. & Ger.Jo. Vojfpus 

 Tlieol. Gentil. 1.2. cap. xxii. nomcn S'lccs, Veneris, erudite deducunt ex yijfjr'tortim numine 

 vcl ^cW^xonQ Succot Benot cujus iiRei;. xvii fit mencio, quafi Tabcrnacul^ filiarum five 

 mulierum dicantnr, feucultus Veneris yiffjiu, <]\iem Herodotus 1. 1 cap. cxcix & Stral>o\. i<S, 

 defcribunt. Cellar. Geogr. Antiq. ]. 4. cap. j. p. 117 7 5/ff<e enim Fanum eft Veneris, in 

 quod fe matronx conferebant ; atque inde procedentes ad qusftum, dotes corporis injuria 

 contrahebant, honelta nimirum tam inhonefto vinculo conjugia jundur^. V.tU, Max. I.2, 

 cap. 6. 5- ly- 



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