SHAW. 
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has, in almost every other instance, shut against 
Europeans. His travels do not contain any no- 
tice 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 king- 
doms present. 
Dr Shaw's attention was peculiarly drawn to- 
wards the remains of Roman art and magnifi- 
cence, with which almost the whole of this region 
is covered. Carthage, indeed, the greatest name 
in ancient Africa, presents no ruins that are not 
subterraneous. Among these, the most remark- 
able is the great reservoir for containing the wa- 
ter conveyed into the city, consisting of twenty 
contiguous cisterns, each one hundred feet in 
length, and thirty in breadth. There are, be- 
sides, numerous private cisterns. But the most 
splendid 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 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 discolour- 
ed to the height of thi'ee feet, by the passage of 
the stream through it. 
