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merit of its feveral parts only could be collected from the 

 fragments which lie ftrewed upon die ground. 



From Mufti*- I proceeded north- eaftward to Tuberfoke, 

 thence again to Dugga, and down the Bagrada to Tu- 

 nis. 



My third, or, which may be called my middle journey 

 through Tunis, was by Zowan, a high mountain, where is 

 a large aqueduct which formerly carried .its water to Car- 

 thage. Thence I came to Jelloula, a village lying below 

 high mountains on the weft ; thefe are the Montes VafTaleti 

 of Ptolemy J, as the town itfelf is the Oppidum Ufalitanum 

 of Pliny. I fell here again into the ancient road at Gilma ; 

 and, not fatisfied with what I had feen of the beauties of 

 Spaitla, I palled there five days more, correcting and revi- 

 fing what I had already committed to paper. Independent 

 of the treafure I found in the elegance of its buildings, the 

 town itfelf is fituated in the molt beautiful fpot in Barbary, 

 furrounded thick with juniper-trees, and watered by a plea- 

 fan t liream that finks there under the earth, and appears 

 no more. 



Here I left my former road at CafTareen, and proceeding 

 directly S. E. came to leriana, the road that I had abandon- 

 ed before from prudential motives. Feriana, as has been 

 before obferved, is the ancient Thalia, taken and deftroyed 

 by Metellus in his purfuit of Jugurtha. I had formed, I 

 know not from what reafon, fanguine expectations of ele- 



Vol. I. e gant 



* Itin. Anton, p. 2. ± Ptol. Geog. lib. iv- p. no, 



