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For, giving into the Opinion that Tarifa was the an- 
litmCarteia, and finding that City placed in a Bay by 
MeUf he concluded there muft be one at Tartfa^ which 
is an open Road, and fo much expofed, that in the 
leaft bad Weather, the fmallefi: Veflels muft be haul’d 
afliore. Which Circumftance alone is a fufficient proof 
of its not being Cart eh, by all accounts, a famous 
Harbour. 
Tho* there are very great Ruins at Algezeira, they 
are not fuch as give any room to believe they are the 
remains of a Roman City. For neither pieces of Marble, 
nor Infcriptions are found there, nor any Roman Coins. 
The Circumftance of f^arus his fhutting up the Mouth- 
of the Harbour of Carteia, and the diflance ef 40 or 
50 Stadia from Calpe, are not applicable, either to Ta- 
rifa or Algezeira , and if one of thofe Towns was Car- 
teia, to what City belong thofe Ruins I have been de- 
fcribing? fince all the ancient Geographers make Car- 
tel a not only the neared Town to Calpe, but the only 
one in that Bay. There is better ground to believe 
Tarifa dands on the Ruins of an other Town, as 1 fliall 
endeavour to fliew prefently. 
But before I proceed to a Defeription of the Coad, 
it may not be improper to mention fome Ruins I law 
at Ximena; an inland Town, about five Leagues 
from Gibraltar, fituated on a Rocky Hill, at the bot- 
tom of which to the Eafirrard is a very plentiful Coun- 
try, waflied by the Jofgarganta, a fmall Branch of the 
River Guadiaro. On the top of the Hill is the old 
Town, which by the Arches and Vaults, appears 
to have been built by the Moors. On the right-hand 
Corner of the fecond Gate of it, there is a courfe Stone 
with Mouldings on the Edges, which has tlie follow- 
ing Infcription^ 
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