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Salmajjui feems to be the moft probable ; for B<£lo and 
not Julia Tradu^a is faid to be over againft Tingis, 
Marciams Heracleotes makes the two former about 
zfo Stadia diflant from one another, and Mellaria is 
generally placed between them ; therefore they could 
not be fo near one another as Cajauhon infinuates. 
Tho’ Carteia was originally founded by the PhcenicianSf 
it had been eredied into a Roman Colony long before 
Mdas time, and therefore he could not very properly 
fay Carteia, quam Phaenices habitant ; and had be intend- 
ed to take notice of the Founders of that City, it is 
probable that one whofe Stile is fo pure and accurate, 
would have made ufe of another word, or at lead 
another Tenfe. Befides, if Julia TraduPia, according 
to Cajauhon, is not meant by that paflage, it muft have 
been entirely omitted by Mela ; which is very unlikely, 
confidering he was Born in or near it ; and that it is 
mentioned by Strabo, who lived before him, and Pto- 
lorn) and feveral others who were after him ; and ap- 
pears to have been remaining at the time the f^andals 
were in poflefTion of Spain ; for Greg. Turcn, Lib. If. fays 
Profequentibus Alamannis ufque ad Tradudfam, tranfito 
mart, Vandali per totam African! ac Mauritaniam funt 
difperf. The Letters of Tingi altera come nearer the 
Tingentera of Elias Vinetus, and the Tinge Hiera of 
Cronovius, than Cafaubons Tingi contraria or Tingi e re» 
gione fita. The © and the atque, by making the flop 
at Tarte(fus inftead of Habitant., may very well relate 
to the fame place; and it is not improbable that Mela 
was defirous to illuftrate the obfcure place of his Birth 
by a PeriphrafiS, and a name of fome Eclat ; tho’ k 
has happened, the method he took to do Honour to it, 
has been the occafion, that we are in doubt even of 
its Name. 
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