( 9“ ) 
vetufla & mmorahilis^ dim Stutio ffavibus Hifpanorum* 
Havc ab Hercule quidam conditnm aiuntj inter quos efi 
Timofthenes, qui earn antiqdtus HcraclQum fuijfe appella- 
tarn refert, ofiendique adhuc magnum murorum circuitum 
Navalia. Cafaubon, in his Notes on this Paflage is of 
Opinion it fliould be KapTu/a. miXis. Legendnm cenjeo 
Kap'ir'ioc 'TToAiSy ttam earn urbem hie intelligi res ipfa docet ; 
ex eo colligi potefb, qttod toties earn infra nominans 
nihil tamen de ejus (itu alibi dix/Jfe reperitur. At Calpen 
Urbem nemini V Herum ne nominatam quidem reperio. 
Marcianus Heracleotes makes Carteia 50 Stadia from 
Calpe» Either of thefe Diftances agrees vikhRocadilloy 
according to the part of the Rock from which they rec- 
kon; for it is above fix Miles from Europa Point to 
Rocadillo, 
Bochart in his Geographia Sacra Lib. I. Cap. 34i 
ftrengthens Cafaubons Opinion Nee frufira Heraclea 
Carteise fuife vet us nomen ^ tanquam ab Hercule conditore, 
Herculem enim fuum Phtenices MeAscap<Snr appellabant. 
Philo Biblius ex Sanchoniathone apud Eufebium L. T. 
Fraparat. owJ'g Ajjpca.paj-'n yivSTU)Me^x,ccf>Qo£ 0 ^ 
Ex Demarunte autem natus e(i Melcarthus qui & Her- 
cules. MgAxapr^Ds autem eft Melech Kartha. 
Rex Urbis, i. e. Tyri. Idem Gnccis Melicertes five Pa- 
l.'cmon Maris Deus, quern Cad mi nepotem e([e fingunt. 
H'tnc Hefyehius rurfus MaA/>ca rov *Afjt.x%v<not. 
Omnino igitur ex Melcartho, vel Hmp TbO Melech 
Kartha. Urbs quam, ad Calpen condidit Hercules Phoeni* 
cius, primo Melcartheia vocata eft , Melech Karthiia, 
quafi dixeris ; deinde per Apharefin Cartheia vel 
Carteia. Apud Hebroeos frequens eft heec Aph<erefis in 
nominibus locorum compofitis. Tale Sittim pro Abel- Sit- 
tim, Salem pro Jerufaiem, &c. 
I have fome Medals that were dug up at Rocadillo, 
with the Head and Club of Hercules upon them ; 
Ccccccc which 
