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fretunf columnas fofitA. Aliam pro Livio Carteiam non 
invcnh 5 tho’ in all the ancient Geographers B^fippo is 
mentioned by it felf as a diftant Town f am To far 
from feeing any necefficy of ereding a oe ’ Cartcix 
in the Ocean for theie Faflages in Livy^ that I take 
that in Lib. XXVIll. to be rather a proof that the City 
there mentioned, flood diiRccitdillo. m, certainly agrees 
much better with that Situation, than with Conti or 
Cartaia near Lepe. It is not to be reconciled with the 
latter, b caufe that lies North Wefi of Cadiz, from 
whence Aclh^rhal fet out for Carthage, and is a good 
way up the Country, on the fide of a River, and not 
in ora Qceani. Neither can Conti be faid properly to be 
Situated Uhi primtim e faucilus angttflis pandit f/r mare ^ for 
the Sea widens confiderabiy before it reaches the Capes 
Spartel and Trafalgar, and becomes an Ocean where 
that Town (lands It is obfervable that Mela applies 
words of the fame import with thofe of Livy to the 
Sea between Calpe and AhiU. BarhefuT, Aperzt deinsU 
anguftijftmum pelagus* There is no Harbour at Conil, 
or any other place between Cape Trafalgar 'awA Cadiz, 
If th<^ Carthaginian ^iinejtteremls had only been going 
into ( intrahat ) the Mouth of the Streights between 
Capes Spartel and Trafalgar, L^elitis could not have be- 
lieved it fatis deprehenfam rapido in fteto, in adverfum 
flum reciprocari non pejfe, for there is no fuch flrong 
Current there; and the adion between him and Ad? 
herb ah Triremes, which were at fome diflance behind 
the ^inqueremis, mud have happened fVeflward of thofe 
Capes ; which is inconhflent with the defeription Liv/^ 
gives of it ; bccaufc in that part of the Ocean there 
are none of thofe Eddies, that appear to have had Co 
particular an effed on both the Fleets, during the Eri’ 
gagement, and are peculiar to the Middle of the Gut, 
