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^th Chapter of Livy : for, as Caro obferves, there is no 
neceffity for the alteration Sigonius has made in that 
paflage of Althaa for Carteia, from the Text of Polj- 
lius\ becauie Livy never mentions the other Carteia 
without adding Oceanum, l/rhs ea in ora Oceani Jita efli 
which diftintJ^ion were needlefs, hacf there been only one 
City of that Name. Strabo in his thiid Book mentions 
a City called KccprnbxUs, and places it near Saguntam, 
which is agreable to«the Situation given this Carteia 
by Livy, 
I am very much furprized that Mariana, and feveral 
others, fliould take the prefent Gibraltar to have been the 
ancient HeracUa ; when neither Fliny, who reiided fd 
long in thofe Parts, Mela who was born there, nor any 
ancient Geographer or Hiftorian that I have met with, 
makes the lead mention of fuch a City thereabouts, ex- 
cept Strabo ; and he places it 40 Stadia from Calpe^ at 
the Foot of which Gibraltar is fituated. The Spanijh 
Hiftorians give good ground to believe there was no 
Town upon that Mountain till the Moors invaded Spain 
under Tariff, who gave it the name it has retained ever 
fince. I ftiall not enter into the detail of the reafons 
of thofe Authors who place Carteia at Tarifa or Alge- 
zeira : the true one (eems to have been their not know- 
ing any other place which agreed better with the old 
accounts of Carteia, or where tlie ruins of a City, 
which made fo great a Figure, could be buried ; 
the common praSice of Authors who deicribe pla- 
ces they have not feen. This appears to have been 
the cafe of mod of thofe, efpecially Mariam ; who, 
had he been in thefe Parts, would not have been 
guilty of the overfight he has committed Lib. XVI. C. 9. 
where he places two Bays in the Streights, one at Gi- 
braltar* and the other at Tarifa ; which error he Was' 
probably led into (as it often happens) by another. 
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