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from Nefta to the Marks, to be the Talus Lthya\ and That, 

 \vhich lyeth betwixt the Marks, (where the Ground is gene- 

 rally dry) and the Illand, for the Talus Tallas\ whillt the 

 Eaftei n Portion of It might have been the Lacus Tr'itonis. Yet 

 we fliall ftill be at a Lofs to account for the River Triton, which, 

 according to !P/o/^w/and other antient Geographers, is made to 

 pafs through This Lake, in It's Courfe to the Sea. I have already 

 defcribed this River, and obferved that It hath no fuch Situati- 

 on ; though, from It's fiilling into the Sea at Gahs, the antient 

 Tacape, This, without doubt, muft be the Triton of the Antients. 



Befides *, the Water, both of the River Triton and of the Brook ne water rf 

 o^El Hammah, isveryfweet and wholefome, but That of this ^'^''^^' 

 Lake (and indeed of molt others that I have tailed in Africa,) 

 hath a Saltnefs not inferiour to That of the Sea ; a Circumflance, 

 which alone may be a fufficient Proof, that there could be no 

 open Communication at leaft betwixt them. 



To account therefore for this Difficulty, and to reconcile It, ^tkathnocom- 

 as far as poffible, with What hath been already taken Notice of, rpuhtheRi. 

 it may be added, that the Vicinity of the moft eaftern Parts of 

 This Lake to the Rivulet oiElHammah ; and the Nearnefs again 

 o^ElHammah to the Sources of the Triton, (though the feveral 

 intervening Hills admit of no Communication, yet thefe Cir- 

 cumftances 1 fay) might have induced the Antients, (who feem to 

 have defcribed this Part o( Bizacium from Tradition only or 

 fome uncertain Accounts,) to have imagined It to lye in fuch 

 a Pofition. 



Leaving Maggs, one of the lefTer Villages oiKif-zonvah three xMaggs. 

 Leagues to the E. N. E. oiE-hillee, we travel near thirty Miles 

 through an uncomfortable Defert, without either Herbage or 

 Water, 'till we arrive within a few Miles oiElHammah. 



ElHammah lyeth four Leagues to theWeft ward oiGahs, being ^ 

 one of the Frontier Towns of the Tunifeens, where they have a 

 fmall Caftle and Garrifon. The old City is at a little Diftance, 

 ftill preferving fome Tokens of Antiquity, though nothing confi- 

 derable. The Infcriptions, in particular, that are mentioned by 

 T>apper ' ^.ndLeo,no longer fubfift,having undergone the like Fate 

 with the other antient Monuments and Strudures of this Place.. 



El Hammah is fo named from one or other of the hot Baths^ EjiiHammafa, 

 whi'v h are reforted to from all Parts of the Kingdom. It is gene^i 



or 



I Atl. Gcogr. Vol. IV. p. \6^. Rcperias & hodie in marmoribus quibufilam infculptai 

 quxdara anciquiutis monumenta. J. Leo. p. 22j. H h h rallv 



