DEDICATION. 
example of their parent country. As a 
proof of this, we have it recorded that Han- 
no made a voyage with a confiderable fleet 
round Africa, by order of the fenate, for 
the fettling of diftant colonies in that part 
of the world >; and there is uili extant a 
Greek verficn of a treatife drawn up by 
Hanno in the Punic tongue, defcriptive of 
his voyage and adventures during this me- 
morable undertaking* We are therefore 
inftrufted by this part of Carthagenian hif- 
tory, that during the time of Hanno they 
had bellowed a very ferious attention on the 
fure fettkrnejit of the moft remote parts o£ 
Africa ; and it is alfo certain that nothing 
prevented them from carrying their inten- 
tions into execution, but the long and ex- 
terminating wars in which they were en- 
gaged with the Romans, and which at 
length ended in the deitruftion of their Re- 
public. Had Carthage triumphed over Rome 
in the third Punic v/ar, it may fairly be 
prefumed, that at this day great part of the 
continent of Europe, now in a ftate of lux- 
uriant cultivation, would have been a defert, 
and Africa the happy feat of all the fciences. 
I have touched upon this part of ancient 
hiftory, as it contradifts the affertions of 
fbme authors who have reprefented the ap- 
parent indifference ihewn by the Carthage- 
nians to the fouthern parts of their own 
country, as totally arifing from an opinion 
that moft of thofe provinces were compof* 
