upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 1 95- 



to the S. W. of Sfax, and nearly at the half Way to Maha-refs. 

 It hath been built upon a low and rocky Piece of Ground, near 

 two Miles in Circuit , but as the antient Materials, have been 

 employed in the building of Sfax \ there is fcarce one Piece of 

 Hewn-Stone to be met with. This maritime City, fo famous 

 in the old Geography, is not only badly fituated, but feems never 

 to have had either a Port or Cothon. The adjacent Country like- 

 wife is dry and barren, without either Fountain or Rivulet to 

 refrefli It. 



Five Miles to the S. W. of Thainee, we crofs a pretty large wed ei 



■ITT T 1 1 -1 Thainee 



Brook, the only running Water 1 remember to nave met with on t/^tanais 

 this Side To-hulba. This, if I miftake not. They call The {U'^edel 

 Thainee^ River of Thainee : and provided Marius in His Expe- 

 dition againft Cn-pfa, continued his Marches along the Coaft of 

 Bizacittm, This or the Tarff\ a few Leagues further to the S. 

 Ihould be the KwQvTanais, where {vls Salluft' informeth us) 

 the Roynans took in Their Provifion of Water. 



t Maha-refs, the Macodama perhaps of the Antients, is a ^£ ^Icoi 

 little Village four Leagues to the S. W. of Thainee. Here are^/'^^' ""^ 



O o Macoma- 



the Ruins of a larse Caftle, and the like Conveniences, which °"^ui- ^^'• 

 have been mentioned at Elalia, for colle6ting of Rain Wa-i^<^- 

 ter. The Inhabitants inform us, that the Latter were built by 

 Sultan hen Egliby whom the People of this Kingdom have in 

 the greateft Efteem and Veneration ; and who hath been the 

 like generous Benefactor at feveral other Places in this Circuit. 



t A little Way from Maha-refs we crofs the River Tarff', TaJ.'*"^ 

 which rifcth near the Ruins of Tarfowah^ four Leagues to the 

 Weft ward of Maha-refs. There is a great Affinity in Sound, be- 

 twixt This Village and the Taphrura of Ttolemy or the Tafa- Tarfowah, 

 rura of Teiitingefs Tables. The fmall Gulph likewife into which rura!" S. 

 This River difchargeth Itfelf, might, for the fame Reafon, be YJi. bb.'' ' 

 received for the Port of Tafra taken Notice of by Thuanus^, 

 were it not at a greater Diftance from the River Triton^ than 

 feems to be fuggefted by that Author. 



The Caftle of Ungha, two good Leagues to the S. W. of Ungha. 

 Maha-refs, was built, according to the Tradition of the Inha- 



I Cum ad flumen \Tunam al. Tana'im] ventum eft .; maxima vis utrium effefta. Ibi ju- 



bet omnibus farcinis abjeclis, aqui modo feque & jumenta onerare. Dein nodem to- 



tam itinere fa£to conledit : idem proxuma f'acit. Dcin rcrtia mulco ante lucis adventum 

 pervenit in locum tumulofum, ab Capfa, non ampHus duum millium intervallo. Sail. Bell. 

 Jug. 5- 9<J. 2 Tafr^i portum juxta Tritonh fluvium tcnuit. 1. 7. 



C c c X bitants. 



