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their neighbourhood ; so that Byzacium would naturally be peopled 
by them to a considerable extent, without its being necessary to infer 
from that circumstance that all Libyphoenices were Byzacians. 
We may add that Strabo does not seem to be aware of any fertility 
in the soil of the Byzacium ; for he continues to state (after the pas- 
sage above quoted from the Second Book of his Geography) that all 
the country between Carthage and the columns of Hercules is fertile 
— not including, of course, either the Byzacium, or the region of the 
Cinyphus 
The extent of the territory which is supposed by Signor Della 
CeUa to have been included in the province of Byzacium, that is, 
(as we have stated above) from the country of the Massaesyli, on 
the western side, to the Cephalas Promontorium on the east, would 
occupy a coast-line of no less than 700 miles, exclusive of its 
limits in a southerly direction; and it wiU more readily be seen 
how much this extent differs, from that of the actual Byzacium, 
by comparing it with the dimensions which Phny has given of the 
country, in the passage which Signor Della Celia has partially quoted 
above f. We shall there find that the district of Byzacium was 
comprehended within a circuit of no more than 250 Roman miles ; 
so that it is difficult to imagine how Pliny could have intended to 
extend its limits, either eastward or westward, to the points which 
the Doctor has claimed for it: since the historian’s intentions 
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t Libyphoenices vocantur qui Byzacium incolunt. Ita appellatur regio ccl. M. P. 
circuitu, fertilitatis eximiae, &c. — (Nat. Hist. Lib. v. c. 4.) 
