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whereas it is at preftnc five Leagues over at the nar- 
row Parc. Cnjauhon is miftaken in that Note on Strabo 
L. H. where he fays. At Maris Mediterranei cftium vix 
LXX Stadia latum e(l y 
I cannot help oblerving that the beft Hony in all 
Spain is made in thefe Parts, and that the fame caufe 
to which the ancient Mdlaria ow’d its Name, dill 
fubfifts, and has given a modern Appellation to feve- 
ral places hereabouts, as Playa de Orimd, Rid de la Midt 
Bejer de la Miel. The latter of thefe is generally rec- 
koned by the Spaniards to be the old Mellaria, for no 
other realbn, that I can fee, but the Name. For it is 
at lead two Leagues from the Coaft of the Streights, 
and, by what I could judge when I was on the Spot, as 
near the Ocean, and therefore may as well be aferibed 
to the one as che other. Whereas Mdlaria, according 
to all the old Geographers, wasfituated on the Sea fide 
in the Streights, and is reckoned by Vliny the nearefl 
Town to A^ric , a plain proof that it was not what is 
now Bejer de la Mid. 
About a League and half further Wefl, in a fmall 
Bay, there are very great Ruins, which appear evi- 
dently to be the remains of a Roman Town. A League 
Eaftvpard from that place, upon an Eminence, are to 
be feen the Quarries from which the Stone was fetch- 
ed for building it; and all the way from thence are 
large remains of an Aquedudf, of which in fome pla- 
ces there are entire Arches dill danding. Among the 
Ruins of the old Town, I faw the Body of a Roman 
Statue of fine Alabader, fomething bigger than the 
Life. Our Guide faid his Father had feen it entire ; 
but as it was an Idol of the Gentiles, they, like good 
Catholicks, had broken ic to pieces. He likewife 
cold us that Urns of old Coins had been found there ; 
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