Of the Summer Circuit. i^s 



bleaching of Linnen ; great Quantities of Both being daily 

 brought hither for that Purpofe, from all Parts of the Kingdom. 

 It hath been already obferved that the Stream, employed in 

 this Service at prefent, was formerly conveyed to Carthage ; 

 and that a Temple, the Ruins of which continue to this Day, 

 was built over the Fountain. Upon an antient Gate of this 

 City, which looks towards the S. E. there is the Device of a 

 RanVs Head, armed, with Auxilio infcribed below It; where- 

 by It may be prefumed, that This City was formerly under 

 the immediate Influence and Protection oljupter Ammon\ 

 If we could be aflured of havina; the leaft Traces of Zeims zeugitana 



'^ . . . frohably jo 



or Zetmtana in the prefent Name of This City or Mountam, f'''/'-'/ A^w 



r- n iiii-vT This Moiai- 



there would be no fmall Reafon to conclude, that the Name ottam. 

 This Province was denominated from It. Solinus feems to ad-^^'-P-^^-^- 

 vance fomething in Favour of This Suppofition, by acquainting 

 us, ih^ty^frica commenced {apede^ Zeugitano) from the Foot, 

 as I would interpret It, of the Mountain Zow-waan ; or, in 

 other Words, that Africa was that Space of Ground which lay 

 to the Northward of the Parallel of This Mountain. It is 

 certain, we have a Profpedl of the greateftPart of the Kingdom 

 from This Eminence ; which might, in all probability, be the 

 fame Place from whence ^gathocles > was entertained with aView 

 both of the Country of the yidrumetines and Carthaginians. The 

 Zygatites likewife oi Herodotus leem to have had This Situation. ^'''- p-?- a- 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the moll remarkable Places upon the Sea-Coafi of the 

 antient Bi2:acium, or Winter Circuit. 



TH E feveral Parts which I have feen of This Province , The general 

 Dcjcrtftio?i ef 

 fall vaftly fhort, in Fertility, of the Character, which hath t^e wmer 



been attributed to It by the Antients. For Thofe that are adja- 

 cent to the SeaCoaft, are generally of a dry fandy Nature, with 

 no great Depth of Soil in the very belt Portion of them. Nei- 



I The Image of y«/>ifr/-y^?jww» is called Kp(OOT?oOTaOTi' by //o-of/or/u. 1.2. 5-42. From whence 

 the Poet, 



Torus cornlbtis Ammon. Luc. 1. p. 1. jip. 

 In one of the Coins of GaUenus, and Saloitinus, there is a Ram with this Legend, Jovi 

 CoNSERVATORI. 2 TlLjkt pt yj M}i^zu uTm^f'iOi, xopt/ptf $• J to aKfn ^ ojiwc. Strab. Geog.''. 1. lo. 

 p. iz6. 3 hyt^'OMi lSRe?I^l^^t^' Stti met t^'jov ipwyo^, o^v o^aSt, J^uictiiv m iwiiv 'varo ■f T AJfyfMtmav HSfi 

 ^f \tif}*iJiyivf T lui»nu, '^roMofKvy'Tzey ya^oi, Diod. Sk. Lib. 20. p. 741. 



A a a ther 



