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the Feet and the extremities of the Drapery were fatt- 
ened to it, are ftill to be feen, and the following Let* 
ters finely cut V A R I A M A R C E. It was given 
me by the owner of the Ground, who faid he had read 
upon it formerly three other Letters L L A fince bro- 
ken off There are other Infcriptions, but fo Defaced 
and ill Cur, that they do not deferve a particular 
mention. I have a confiderable number of Medals, 
that were found among thefe Ruins ; moft of them 
have a Caput turritum with C A RT E lA in very le- 
gible Charaders. The Reverfe is generally a Fijh, a 
Neptune^ or a Rud/^er, Towards the Weft there is an 
eafy Defcent to the River Guadarranque, which takes its 
Source at Caftdkr, about four Leagues in the Coun^ 
try, and is very deep at Rocadillo. There is a Bar 
where the River falls into the Bay; but it does not 
hinder the entrance of Veffels of 1 5 Tun, to load 
Charcoal and other necefTarie^, that are Shipt off from 
thence for Ceuta. Along the fide of the River there 
is ftill a great deal of Stone Work and vifible remains 
of an Ancient Key. At a fmall diftance to the Eaft, 
upon an Eminence, there are confiderable ruins of a 
Square Caftle, which appears to have been an ancient 
Building of very great Strength The Country People 
now call it Cajitllon^ but the Corrigidor of that Diftrid 
told me he remember’d it called Torre Cartagena. The 
Situation agrees exadly with the Tower of that Name, 
mentioned in the and -^i6th Chapters of the 
Chronicle of Alphonfo XI of Ca(li[et A Book of great 
Authority among the Spaniards, who are generally of 
Opinion that it was formed upon the Memoirs of 
Fernando Nunnez de P'alladolid, a Favourite and Mini- 
fter of that King, tho’ it goes under the name of a- 
nother Perfon. 
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