1 88 Geographical Ohfervations 



long Journies, the Days at This Time confifting only of nine or 

 ten Hours. Nay farther, as Rufpina lay within fix Miles of 

 Leptis ; the firft Days March ( upon a Suppofition that Ha- 

 mam-et was the ^drtimetum,) mult have been near feventy 

 Miles; which feems to be impoffible. There is no Room then 

 to imagine that Hamam-et could have been the antient Adru- 

 me Him. 

 Monafteer Moualteer is indeed built upon a Promontory, and fo far 



too near ' . . r- 7 1 



Leptis to be agreeth with the Situation of Adrumetum ; but then, befides 



the Adrumc- *-' <- -i x • t 



turn. feveral other Reafons to the contrary. It is too near Leptis 



and the Station of Cafafs Navy, to be fo much as thought of 

 Upon thefe feveral Confiderations therefore, HerMa is the on- 

 ly Place, wherewith the feveral geographical Circumftances, 

 that are recorded of Adrumetum, will exactly agree. 



Adrumetum Another Argument, in Favour of This Suppofition, may be 



hath often , ^ , *i • 1 1 r i / / 



changed It's drawn from the Alteration that may be prelumed to have been 

 more than once made in the Name. For as It was ufual, upon 

 feveral Occafions, both with the Greeks and Romans, to change 

 the old Names of their Cities in Honour of their Emperours or 

 EmprefTes ; fo It was no lefs common for one Emperour, up- 

 on doing fome fignal good Offices to a favourite City, to have 

 His own Name fubftituted in the Place of His PredecefTor s. 

 Thus Trocopim' telleth us, that Adrumetum, in Refpeft to 

 the Emperour Jufiiman, was called in His Time Jufiiniana ; 

 as It might afterwards have been changed into Heraclea, out 

 of the like Sentiments of Gratitude to His diftant Succeflbur 

 Heracl'tus. 

 The Naviga. Herk/a, in crofling the interjacent Gulph, ly eth feven Leagues 

 nlGui/h. only to the S. by W. of Hamam-et, though, in travelling by 

 Land, the Diftance is upwards of thirty Geographical Miles, 

 or a tedious Day's Journey. The Mariner may traverfe all 

 Parts of this Gulph without the leaft Danger from Rocks, or 

 Shallows; neither could He fail, even in the greatelt Diftrefs 

 of Weather, without fome extraordinary Accident, to reach 

 either the Ports of Stagul and Aphrodifmm, or the Cothon at 

 leaft of Adrumetum. This City then, according to the Con- 

 jectures of Scaliger"^ and others, could not w^ell be called The 



Vid. Trocop. de ^dificiis Dn. Juft'mUni Cap. 6. 2. Quod dicit Solinus [Exc, p. 24. C] 

 de Hadramyto, id origine verbi contirmatur, quse plane Puiiica elt r^jic-ivn. Sed Arabice 

 melius o^/c >j&o^ aplce in fecunda litera fuperfcripto, iit fit Hadramuth. Ita etiam voca- 

 tus filius Joiian de pofteritate Sem, Gen. X. 25. Eft autem Adramyt imuhn nhimvQ,-. Nam 



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