tRAVELS IN BARBARY. 
its arches may be seen in an entire state, seventy 
feet high, and supported by columns sixteen feet 
square. The channel, through which the water 
passed, lies along the top of the arches, and is of 
sufficient dimensions to allow a person of ordinary 
size to walk through. It is discoloured to the height 
of three feet, by the passage of the stream through it. 
Constantina, the ancient Cirta, in the eastern part 
of the Algerine territory, has its site entirely cover- 
ed with broken walls, cisterns, and other ruins. 
The aqueduct and cisterns are particularly sump- 
tuous. Shaw mentions also an altar of white 
marble ; a bridge with various sculptured orna- 
ments ; and a large gate, built of a beautiful red- 
dish stone not inferior to marble. Shershel, the 
ancient Julia Cassarea, inspires also a high idea of 
its ancient magnificence, by the fine pillars, capi- 
tals, capacious cisterns, and beautiful Mosaic pave- 
ments, that are everywhere remaining. The aque- 
duct, by which the water of the river Hashem was 
conveyed into this city, appears by the fragments 
scattered in the neighbouring valleys, to have been 
little inferior to that of Carthage. The ancient 
harbour appears, by some revolution of nature, to 
be now sjmk under the waves ; as, when the wa- 
ter is low, the remains of its numerous pillars and 
massy walls are discovered. Spaitla, the ancient 
Suffetula, contains remains of extraordinary beauty, 
among which are distinguished a triumphal arch of 
