Of the Winter Circuit, j ^p 



ber of the Latter are very well preferved, being fome of them 

 round, or in the Figure of an Odtogon, fupported by four, fix 

 or eight Columns : whilft others again are fquare and compaft 

 Buildings, with a Nich in one of the Fafcades, or elfc a wide 

 open Place, like a Balcony, upon the Tops of Them. But the In- 

 fcriptions which belonged as well toThefe as to other Antiqui- 

 ties, are either defaced by Time or the Malice of the Arahs. Up- 

 on a triumphal Arch, more remarkable for It's Largenefs than 

 Beauty, we have the following Infcription in Letters nearly 

 of a Foot long : but there is not the leaft Notice taken, as 

 ufual, of the City or People that eredted It. 



IMP. CAES. L. SEPTIMIO SEVERO PERTINACI AVG. 



P. M. TRIE. POT. III. IMP. V. COS. II. PP. PARTHICO ARABICO 



ET PARTHICO ADIABENICO. DD. PP. 



Provided we could be fure that the leaft Tradition of the^'^^'^""^"* 



DRONUM 



former Name was preferved, we might fufped; It to be the^oi-^Ex^p. 

 Tynidnim or Thimudronum of the Antients, which, being pla- 

 ced by Ttolemy more than two Degrees to the Weftward of 

 Sicca, will not be far diftant from This Situation. 



For Want of fufficient Geographical Circumftances and In-Zowareen. 

 ftrudlions, we fhall meet with the like Difficulties and Uncer- 

 tainties in fixing the antient Name of Zowareeuy fix Leagues 

 to the E. S. K of Keff\ of Manfoufe, three Leagues to the Manfoufe. 

 Southward of Toufeph ; of Sbeehah, feven Leagues to the S. lu^^^f 'te- 

 S. E. of Keff'. of Nah-hanah, eisht Leagues to the Weftward rebinthi- 



~ (^ '--' *-' NA. EXC. p. 



of Herkla: oi jelloidah, five Leagues to the S. W. by S. ofiyCE.F. 



'-' Nab-hanan. 



Nahhanah ; and of FuJ-fanah, eight Leagues to the S. E. of J^nouiah 

 Hydrah\ at all which Places there are confiderable Heaps ofsALixA- 

 Ruins. 'Hiov^Q'^Qr Sheehah, from the Extent of Ruins and theSi-p.ai." c. ° 

 tuation of It with Refpeft to Kijfer, may probably have been*^""^"' ' 

 the Tucca TereVinthlna ; as Jelloulah, from lying below the 

 Mountains of Ufe-kt, may lay in the like Claim to the Oppi- 

 dmn Ufalitanum of the Antients. The following Epitaph is 

 among the Ruins of Manfoufe. 



D d d X D. M. S. 



