ipo Geographical Ohfervattons 



as far as Surfeff^ the antient Sarfura. Behind It, all along to 

 Sahaleel, we have a View of that extenfive Plain, which is 

 taken Notice of likewife by the fame Author. But as there are 

 no Traces of a Port either at This Place, or for feveral Miles 

 on each Side of It : as It is lituated likewife too near the Sea ' 

 and at too great a Diftance from Leptis, Sufa doth not feem to 

 agree with the antient Rufpina, to which Hirtms hath afcribed 

 all or moft of thefe Circumftances. 



rSs™^^^ a League and an half from Sufa, we pafs over a Valley with 



^7i^b't5'.^ brisk tranfparent Rivulet running through the middle of It. 



peut. z. j^aif a League further, upon a Declivity of the fame Chain of 

 Eminences with Sufa, is Sahaleel, where we have likewife 

 fome Remains of Antiquities. This Village is fituated at a good 

 Miles Diftance from the Sea, and therefore feems to have fair* 

 er Pretenfions to Rufpina than Sufa ; efpecially as the Sea be- 

 fore It not only formethltfelf into a Bay, but hath alfo a Com- 

 munication with a fmall Lake, which was probably the Port 

 mentioned by Hirtius \ Sahaleel having no other Water than 

 what is drawn from a few Wells, will very well account for 

 the Neceffity that Ccefar lay under of receiving further Sup- 

 plies from another Place : which (from the many Difficulties 

 He met with in the Way to It \ occafioned by Scipio's Army 

 being poffefTed of all this Country to the Northward) feems 

 to have been from the Rivulet I have juft now defcribed. 



Monaftecr. piye Milcs over againft Sahaleel, upon the Extremity of a 

 fmall Cape, is Monafleer, a. neat thriving City, walled round 

 like Sufa. Large Pieces of Marble, Pillars, and other antient 

 Materials are not commonly met with at this Place; how- 

 ever from It's Situation, and the Command It would have 

 thereby of the two Bays of Sufa and Leptis, we may fufpe6t 

 It to have been oi Carthaginian or Roman Extraction; though, 

 from the prefent Name, It can lay claim to no extraordinary- 

 Antiquity. 



In hoc jugo colles funt excelfi pauci &c, Hirt. Bell. Afr'ic. 5- 34- Sc'ip'to interim, cognlto 

 Cdfms difcefTu, (i caftris prope R«/J!>«»*iw) cum univerfis copiis per jugnm C^farem fubfequi 



casplt 5- j8. Scipio confeftim Cafarem per fuperiora loca confecutus, millia paiTuum VIII 



^Thapfo binis caftris confedit. 5- 68. Labienus per Jugum fummum Collis, dextrorfus pro- 

 cul milites fubfequi non defiftit. 5- <^3- i Portus (Rufpiiu) abeft ab oppido millia Pafluum 

 II. Id. ^.9. 2 Vid. Not. ut fupra. 3 C<e/<ir-vallum ab oppido Rufpina. ufque ad mare de- 



ducere & i caftris alteram eodem Equitatus eorum (Scipio7i'is &c.) circum Cafaris muni- 



tiones vagari; atque eos qui pabulandi aut aquandi gratia extra Vallum progreffi effenc, ex- 

 cipere. Hirt, Bell, ^fric 5.1 j> & 22. 



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