( pio ) 
tJAnjes offendiffentt pericalum totius clajfts amittenda declina- 
v'lt. 1 his cannot be underftood of the Bay, becaufe 
that is three Leagues over at the narroweft part, and 
much too deep for a work of fuch a Nature which 
might eafily have been efFeded upon the Bar of the Ri- 
ver Guadarranque. 
There is no room to doubt of the emendation Luts 
Names, in his HifpnnicA, has made here of KapTnU for 
Kepivno.; for no ancient Author mentions any other 
Town or Harbour thereabouts of a name like that ; 
and Cartcia was the place which held out the longeft 
for the younger Pompey, and wl>ere he kept his Fleets. 
Floras in the Paflage I have already quoted, relating 
the fame Affion between Didias and Varus, reprefents 
in very lively Colours, the very Scene near Rocadillo. 
Adde fitus ipfius formidimm^ vergenth in anum hinc Hif’ 
par,t£ inde ManritanidS littora ; mare inteftinam ^ exter- 
nam, imminent efqae Herculis fpeculas <SvC. 
Hirtius, in the latter part of his Book de hello Hif- 
panico, fays Cn. Pompeius ad navale pr£jidium parte altera 
contendit Carteiam, qaod Oppidum aheji' a Corduba miUta 
pajfaam CLXX. which diftance, as well as the circum* 
fiance of navale praftdium, agrees with the Situation of 
Rccadillo The ancient Geographers place Carteia next 
to Calps Weftivard. Pomponius Mela, after having given 
us a perfefl: Fixture of Calpe, and deferibed thofe la- 
fling Marks, in which fo many Centuries have made 
no alteration, fays — Sinus ultra efl, in eoque Carteia. 
Strabo L Ilf* ’Ey>mvja. ^ g<rt < 7 ^ in KecAmi, 
&c. ^ ccuTO K-xAtzm oriAiS ey TSTTa£p&>tp>'7rc. ?a(hoif, 
cc^ioAoyt^ ^ vecugx.'^^i croTi yivo/Mvn 
’'Evioi fs 'H^xAeye x.lio'fJia, Afyniaiv ccvrr.y ^ d)y tc^i <t 
Tifj^Ssvns. os (pn<at ^ H^x-Aoiay oro|«,a^g^ to 'uzcAaciOy, 
S^&jtvuSziu <n {Myoiv ^ vsvQiTcys, thi mans HiP 
panorum eft Calpe, &c. ^ ad XL inde Stadia Urbs Calpe 
vetufla 
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