INTRODUCTION. xxix 



tual war *. they pay no taxes to the Bey, but live in conftant 

 defiance of him. 



As this is the Mons Audus Of Ptolemy, here too mull be 

 fixed his Lambefa*, or Lambefentium Colonia, which, by a 

 hundred Latin inscriptions remaining on the fpot, it is attefl- 

 ed to have been. It is now called Tezzoute : the ruins of 

 the city are very extenfive. There are feven of the gates 

 ftill {landing, and great pieces of the walls folidly built 

 with fquare mafonry without lime. The buildings remain- 

 ing are of very different ages, from Adrian to Aurelian, nay 

 even to Maximin. One building only, fupported by columns 

 of the Corinthian order, was in good tafle; what its ufe was 

 I know not. The drawing of this is in the King's collec- 

 tion. It was certainly defigned for fome military purpofe, 

 by the fize of the gates ; I fhould fufpect a flable for ele- 

 phants, or a repoiitory for catapulta, or other large military 

 machines, though there are no traces left upon the walls in- 

 dicating either. Upon the key-ftone of the arch of the 

 principal gate there is a baffo-relievo of the flandard of a 

 legion, and upon it an infeription, Legio tenia Augufla, 

 which legion, we know from hiftory, was quartered here. 

 Dr Shawf fays, that there is here a neat, round, Corinthian 

 temple, called Cubb el Arroufah, the Cupola or Dome of the 

 Bride or Spoufe. Such a building does exift, but it is by no 

 means of a good tafle, nor of the Corinthian order ; but of 

 a long difproportioned Doric, of the time of Aurelian, and 

 does not merit the attention of any architect. Dr Shaw 



never 



'ftol, Geog. lib. iv. p. Ifl. f Shaw's Travels, chap. viii,. P-57- 



