upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 191 



t Lempta, the Leptis par'Va of the Antients, is fuppofed by Lempta, ue 

 Bochart' to denote a Port or Station forVeffels. It hath been ^3. ex. p. 

 a Mile or more in Circuit, but at prefent there is nothing left c' y.o.i.1'. 

 of It, befides a finall Part of the Caftle, with a low Shelf offcf.AX/ * 

 Rocks that probably made the northern Mound of the Cothon. 

 Buno telleth us that Leptis is what we now call Aracca : per- 

 haps He meant Herkla, for there is no other Village of the like 

 Sound upon the Sea Coaft. 



t A few Miles to the Weftward o£ Lempta are the Ruins ofeoo Hadjar, 

 y^gnr, another of defars Stations, which Hirttus telleth us*"^ 

 was fixteen Miles from Tbap/us. The rocky Situation of this 

 Place, and the Quantity we have here of Stones and Ruins, 

 might give Occafion to the Arahs, (according to their Facility 

 of Invention) to alter a little the old Name, and call It Boo 

 Hadjar, [The Father of a Stone i. e.] The Stony City. 



Between Boo Hadjar and Demafs, but within four Miles o^ a Lake of 

 the Latter, there is a large Lake of Salt Water, which reach- 

 €th within half a League of To-hulba. This ' is the Lake taken To-buiba. 

 Notice of by Hirtius ; as To-hiilha, a fmall maritime Village, 

 may lye near the Place where Ccejar ere6led a Fort to prevent 

 Scipio\ fending in frefli Succours by This narrow Paflage to 

 Thapfus. 



T)emafs, the antient Thapfus, is fituated upon a low Neck oemafs. The 

 of Land three Miles to the E. hy S. of To-hulba. The great rxcp.i^.'e. 



' . . p.aa. B. Tab. 



Extent of Ruins maketh It the moft conliderable City on this Pf«?. aa. 

 Side Carthage, though, by the Taxation ^, It lliould have been 

 much fmaller than Adrametum in the Time of Ccsjar. From 

 thefe Ruins and thofe of Herhla, Sufa and Monafieer received 

 large Contributions in building their Walls, Caftles and Houfes 

 of better Fafliion. 



There is ftill remaining, in Defiance of Time and the Sea, r^^ cothon 

 a great Part of the Cothon^ which was built in Frames, in the ^^^"^' 

 fame Manner with the Walls of Tlem-Jan. The Compofition like- 

 wife is made up of fmall Pebbles and Mortar, which are fo well 

 cemented and knit together, that a folid Rock could not be 



I Viz. i r~l3S quod fun'ice ftationem fignificac. Boch. Chan. J.r. cap. 24. Sic Lmm. 

 Bell. Civ. L. p. 1. pji. 



Pioxima Leptis erat cujus Statione quieta 

 Exegere hyemem. 



2 Erat Stagnum Salinarum, inter quod & maEc anguftije qua^dam non amplius millc & quin- 

 gentos paffiis intererant; quas 5a/>io intrare, & 77;<tp^MHii auxilium ferre, conabatur. 5<^2. 



3 Tbdpjitanis HS XX miilia, conventui eorum XXX millia, AdrumetanU HS XXX, conven- 

 tui eorum HS L millia, muldse nomine, imponit. f. ly. Exc. p. 8. B. 



B b b X more 



