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Chiflel ; lb that we cannot colleft the antient Name of This 

 City from any of the Antiquities that have been hitherto dif- 

 covered. However as It is fituated betwixt Tifdrus and ^- 

 drumetu?n, though nearer the Latter; by the due Diftance 

 of It likewife from the River Mergaleel, the u^qttis Regiis of 

 the Anticnts, It muft have been, I prefume, the P^ko ^ugufli 

 of the Itinerary. Thuanus ' muft certainly be miftaken in ma- 

 king It the antient CtiruVts, which hath been already taken No- 

 tice of, as a maritime City, fixty Miles diftant to the N. E. It 

 may be queftioned likewife whether It be the fame Name with 

 Cairo or Kahiro in Egyp, denoting a J^iCtory. For Kair-tt/an 

 feems to be the fame Appellation with, what we call, Ca- 

 raman, originally fignifying, as Leo and Marmot fuppofe, the 

 Place where \\\q Arabs had thQv^Rendeziious^ in their Conquefts 

 of this Part of Africa. 



t Spaitla, the antient Sufetula, lyeth about twelve Leagues spaitia, n-c 

 to the Southward of Keff, being one of the moft remarkable eJc^I'H-!'.' 

 Places in Barbary for the Extent and Magnificence of It's Ruins. ^"^""* ^■^^* 

 For at a Furlong's Diftance to the Eaft ward, there is a fumptuous 

 triumphal Arch of the Corinthian Order, conlifting of one large 

 Arch, with a leffer one on each Side ot It : but this Part only 

 of the Dedication remaineth. 



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I Calipba Africae Caruani five Curubi, urbe ab Occuba Nafici F. ante CC annos in Cyrenaica 

 condita, poft unam & alteram dc Chriftianis reportatam ab Arabibus Fiiloriam, id enini no^ 

 men fonat, fedem habuit : cumque ufbs confluentis ad habitandum multitudinis capax non 

 effet, juxta earn & altera civitas exftruda eft, Raqtieda difta. Thuan. 1. 7. Curubis qux & 

 Carvenna. ibid. 2 Cairaoan Condkovem hzbah Hucba, qui univerfi exercitus dux ex >^r<iiJ4 

 defcrta ab Hutmeno Pontifice tertio miflus fuerat ; — neque aliam ob caufam conditum fuifle 

 dicunt, quam ut in eo exercitus cum omni praeda Barbaris atque Numidis adempta, fecure fe 

 continere podent. — Eo tempore quo Elagleb Regno potitus eft, tam incolis quam sdifi- 

 ciis auftum. y. Leo. p. 223. Marmol. Hift. y^r. c.34. 



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