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there, and accordingly I found nothing memorable but the 

 name. It may be faid nothing remains of Utica but a 

 heap of rubbifh and of fmall ftones ; without the city 

 the trenches and approaches of the ancient befiegers are 

 ftill very perfect. 



After doubling Cape Carthage I anchored before the 

 fortrefs of the Goletta, a place now of no ftrength, notwith- 

 ftanding the figure it made at the time of the expedition of 

 Charles V. Rowing along the bay, between the Cape and 

 this anchorage, I faw feveral buildings and columns ftill 

 Handing under water, by which it appeared that old Car- 

 thage had owed part of its deftruction to the fea, and hence 

 likewife may be inferred the abfurdity of any attempt to 

 reprefent the fite of ancient Carthage upon paper. It has 

 been, befides, at leaft ten times deftroyed, fo that the ftations, 

 where its firfl citizens fell fighting for their liberty, are 

 covered deep in rubbifh, far from being trodden upon by 

 thofe unworthy ilaves who now are its mailers. 



Tunis * is twelve miles diftant from this : It is a large and 

 flourifhing city. The people are more civilized than in 

 Algiers, and the government milder, but the climate is very 

 far from being fo good. Tunis is low, hot, and damp, and 

 deftitute of good water, with which Algiers is fupplied from 

 a thoufand fprings. 



I delivered my letters from the Bey, and obtained per- 

 miflion to vifit the country in whatever direction I mould 



pleafe. 



* Liv, Epit. xxx. I..9,. 



