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TRAVELS IN BARBARA. 
become Mahometan. All the English who still 
adhered to their religion were now liberated. 
About the year 1720, Dr Thomas Shaw was ap- 
pointed chaplain to the factory at Algiers, in which 
capacity he resided there for about twelve years. 
During this period he made frequent excursions 
through the interior of Algiers and Tunis, a region 
which the jealousy of the natives has, in almost 
every other instance, shut against Europeans. 
His travels do not contain any notice of his own 
adventures ; but they relate, in a very minute and 
detailed manner, all the leading objects of nature 
and art which these two kingdoms present. 
Dr Shaw's attention was peculiarly drawn to- 
wards the remains of Roman art and magnificence, 
with which almost the whole of this region is cover- 
ed. Carthage, indeed, the greatest name in an- 
cient Africa, presents no ruins that are not sub- 
terraneous. Among these, the most remarkable is 
the great reservoir for containing the water con- 
veyed into the city, and which consists of twenty 
contiguous cisterns, each one hundred feet in 
length, and thirty in breadth. There are, besides, 
numerous private cisterns. But Jhe most splen- 
did monument connected with Carthage is the 
great cistern, by which water was conveyed from 
the mountain of Zowan, a distance of fifty miles. At 
the village of Arriana, near Tunis, a long range of 
