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 The little village of Hammamet, called "the City of Pigeons" on account of the innumerable ring-doves which nest in the rocks of the neighbouring mountains, bas given its name to the broad gulf between the Cape Bon peninsula and Monastir Point. It owes this honour neither to its antiquity, since it was founded

only in the fifteenth century, nor to its wealth, for it has but a small population, while the surrounding district is badly cultivated, but rather to the effect produced by its white walls flanked with square towers partly built into the masonry, and to its position, exactly at the southern extremity of the route which traverses the