upon the Sea-Coaft of the Winter Circuit. 197 



at prefent, arifeth from the great Number oiAlhemia Plants, 

 that are cultivated in Their Gardens ; whofe Leaves, after being 

 dryed and powdered, are difpofed of to good Advantage in all 

 the Markets of This Kingdom. This Tree, no lefs than the 

 Palm, requires to be frequently watered; for which Purpofe 

 the Triton is canton d out into a Number of artificial Channels, 

 as It feems to have been in the Time of Tl'my. ' 



The River of Gabs, the Triton of the Antients, falls into The Rher 

 the Sea to the Northward of the old City, and forms the£:c^!p°i^*D, 

 Ground, upon which It was iituated, into a Teninfula. It hath i "^'f. \'.i^. 

 It's Sources three or four Leagues only to the S. S, W, o^Gahs, p.'4- c- ^ 

 (where perhaps we are to look for the yiquas Tacaptanas) and £«p-^8. a. 

 becomes at once (as is ufual with feveral other Rivers in thefe 

 hotter Climates) a confiderable Stream, near as big as the Cher- 

 well. Two long Chains of Mountains, which reach from El 

 Hammah to Maggs, and are continued from thence to the Sea- 

 Coaft over againft the Ifland Jerha, will neither admit of the 

 Length nor of that Succeifion of Lakes which have been attri- 

 buted to This River by antient as well as modern Geographers. 

 It is impoffible likewife, that, according to Ttolemy, It fhould 

 have It's Origine in the Mountain of Vafaletus. For if This^'^^'P-^^-^" 

 be the fame, as the Name feems to infinuate, with the prefent 

 Ufe-let, It will lye at too great a Diftance to be taken for it. And 

 indeed if we except that fmall Space of Ground which is refrefh- 

 ed by the Springs of El Hammah, (for the River Accroude is 

 only a periodical Stream ) all the reft of the Country in This 

 Direftion is parched up for Want of Water. If This therefore 

 be the River Triton, as will not I prefume be difputed. Geogra- 

 phers have been greatly miftaken in their Defcriptions of It. 



Three Miles from Gahs to the S. E. hy E. is the little Village To-buiba, 

 To-hulba ; and ten Leagues farther. In the fame Direction, we 

 have the Ifland Gerba, oxjerba as the Tunijeens pronounce It,Jerba, p.zg. 

 the moft fouthern Territory of This Kingdom. Jerba appears to dd. The 

 be the Brachion of Scylax, and the Meninx ^ of Strabo and o- exc. p. 3. c. 

 thers; though Ttolemy maketh the latter a City only of theNiNx. p. s. 

 Lotophagitis, as He calleth This Ifland. an/llXo-' 



FHAGITIS 



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1 Tacape, fclici fuper omne miraculum riguo folo: teniis fere mill. paflT. in omneiti par- 

 tem fons abundat, largus quidem, fed certis horarum fpaciis difpenl'atur intelr incolas. I.18. 

 cap. 22. 7rf<:.i/>e a 3nD, locus hiimidus & irriguus. Boch. Chan. \. I. c^p. 2^. 2 Fallor an 

 rwninx punice Icribebatur ypi 'D me-nikj, quafi dixeris aquas defedtus, i. e. dcficentes vel 

 X21 ^12 me-nics, quafi dixeris aquas recelTus, i. e. recedentes? Id. ibid. 



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