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II. A Vifcour/e tending to P?ew the Situation of the 
ancient Carteia, and fome other Roman Towns 
near it. By John Conduitc Efq‘^ Fellow 
of the Royal Society. 
A Bout four En^lijh Miles N. IV. from Gihraltar., at 
the end of the Bay, there are confiderable Ruins. 
The place is called at prefent Rocadillo, and confiBs of 
a few Huts, and a Modern Square Tower, which ap- 
pears to have been raifed on the Foundation of a much 
greater Pile. The Walls of the old City are very eafy 
to be traced. They feem to have been about two 
Englilh Miles in Circumference, and were built upon 
the Brow of a rifing Ground. The fpace within is co- 
vered with Ruins, among which are a great many pie- 
ces of very fins Marble well wrought ; and innumera<- 
ble fragments of Vellels of that kind of red Earth'en 
Ware, which Amlrojio Morales in the firfl Chapter of 
his Difcurfo de las antiguedades de las chtdades de Ef> 
fanna, lays down for a certain mark of a Roman City, 
and takes to have been a Compoficion of the Clay of 
Sagitntum, often mentioned among the Romans* 
Fi^a Saguntino pcuU malo luto. Mar. Lib. Vllk Ep. 6. 
Sume Saguntino pcula fi^a luto. Lib. XlV.Ep.io8. 
There are remains of a rude Semicircular Building, 
raifed on Arches, which defcends gradually into an 
Area, and Teems to have been a kind of Theatre. I 
brought away with me a Marble Pedeftal of a Statue, 
dug up near to the Square Tower. The Marks where 
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