via D-EDICAllON. 
meixe, fent out a colony which fettled at 
Utica, on a fine bay of the Mediterranean 5. 
rendered memorable in hiftory by the death 
of the fecond Cato. About feventy years 
after the eftabliftiment of the commonwealth 
at Utica, the parent city, encouraged by 
the fucccfs of the former emigrants, fixed 
another colony within thirty miiles of them 5 
OH a peniniula of the fame coaft, and abouf 
the fame diftance north weft of that fpct 
w^here the city of Twiis now ftands. This 
they nam.ed Cape Carthagey and here was 
founded that celebrated Republic which 
fhook the Roman empire to its centre- 
Car thage, though a commercial and en- 
terprifmg Republic, flouriftied at a. diftant 
period. Their city was founded 98 years 
before that of Rom_e, 846 before the chrif- 
tian sera, and lafted m.ore than 700 years ^ 
it was then rafed to its foundation by the 
Roman Icgior^s, cammxandedby Scipio Africa- 
nus^ and under the confulate of Cn^ Lentulus 
and L. Mummms.. This, Sir, was an epoch, 
when navigation was but imperfeftly under- 
ftood ; and, although they afterwards be-- 
came fuperior to all the cotemporary na« 
tions, in the m.anagenient of their fliipping^ 
and ftretching out their arms eaftward and 
weftward, wafted their commerce to Mau- 
ritania, Gaul, and beyond the Straits and 
Pillars of Hercules ; yet, even in their pro- 
greffive ftate, they were intent on exploring 
and fettling their ovv^n continent after tJie. 
