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rks, ^c. we ftiould make the Africa PUny, com- 
prehending even the two Provinces of Zeugitana and 
PpzacluMy to be the Kingdom of T^wnisy we (hall 
meet with great Difficulties in the Geography,' efpe- 
ciallyi of B’tzaciuM^ which is the Southern, and 
ought to be the greater Part of it. For as PUny 
makes it only 250 Miles in Circuit, and to extend 
from Zdrumettum or Hercla North to Sahrata^ or 
t^ Gaps only, or facape South, we fhall find that 
this Number of Miles will not be fufficient to mea- 
fure the Coaft twice over, and therefore can lay no 
Claim at all to any Part of the Continent. But how 
far (hort foever this Calculation may be of the Truth, 
it feems very probable, that the Province of Ha- 
dfUMettiiWy as defcribed by Ptolemy ^ how faulty 
foever he may be in Particulars, is the Bizachm 
which we look after, and that it included the Blatde 
el Gereed, or Country of Dates, which PUny and 
the Author of the Itinerary feem to have known no- 
thing of, or^ not to have regarded. For Ptolemy's- 
UfuUtanum, furza, Zugara, Cities fiill prefervmg 
their old Names, and near upon the fame Latitude with 
Hdrumettumy continue to remain its Boundaries to 
the Norths as fofer and Gaps, the Ttfuro and 
, Capi, or I'dcape of the Antients, do to the South • 
while faney and Gaffa, or the aritient Time and 
Capfa, dprmine the Midland' Continent. And in 
this Situation, * Straho feems to place his Bizac 'u * 
and at the fame Time makes the Country ofi the 
Carthaginians to be only \\\(t Zeugitana of Plhiy, 
;■ Supra Syrtes Pfylia atque Kafar?iom atque Getuiarum alfquos'. 
demde Syrtas & Byzaaos ufque ad Cartliaginienfem - repionem - ea*' 
cnim eft raulta. Strah. Ceogr, l.x, ' _ , ° 
contrary 
