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which feetn in fome meafure, to fupport chat great 
Mans Aflertion. Upon the Reverfe are Tunny Fifties, 
which according to Strabo and Flinj abounded former- 
ly> near Carteia, and are ftiU taken in great quantities 
near the Shoar of the Eaft Sea, a {mall diftance 
from Roeadillo. 
Bernardo Aldrete an Author of fuch Weight, that 
Bochart does not difdain to copy him on feveral ocea- 
fions, in the fecond Book and fecond Chapter of his 
Antiguedades de Efpanna, accounts for the Addition of 
eia to Cartha; which in the Sjriack and Chaldean fignifies 
Tulcher, Fermofus, and was affixed to the Name of this 
City to diftinguilh it from the Cartha in Syria, men- 
tioned in the zi/? Chapter and 34?^ Verfe oijo/hua*^ 
By all accounts, the Fheenicians founded moft of 
the Cities on this Coaff, and probably Carteia was 
one of their earlieff; Settlements j for it lies very near 
Africk, in a mod inviting Situation, having on one 
fide a Bay, and on the other a. River, which waters 
a rich Country. Its height gave, it ftrength and a very 
beautiful ProTpedl ; circumffances which, (eem to juft ifte 
Aldretes interpretation of the latter part of it’s name. 
In the Itinerary of Antoninus, it is Calpe - Carteiam, 
not tanquam dm urhes diverfa, 2.S Cafaubon intimates in, 
his Notes on the third Book of Strabo, for then it 
would be Calpen Carteiam', nor, according to Suritds 
Comment on that part of the Itinerary, ut JigniJicet non 
re£ha iUr ex Suel Carteiam deduct , fed paultdum ad Calr 
^tndejteSiiy becaufe (lands at the end of a nat' 
row neck of Land,, which projetds to the Southward a 
great way from.. the reft of the Continent; and confe- 
quently is qnite. out of the Road from Suel to any o- 
thet place Wefiward o( it ; probably Calpe -Carteia is 
Carteia, ad Calpen, to diftinguilh it from die other 
Cmeia itSk CeltiherMy mentioned in. the.z.1 Jt Book and 
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