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 necessary accommodation, and when the routes running inland are bordered by towns and villages. During the invasion of Khumiria, the operations of the French fleet commenced in the roadstead of Tabarka, where the plan of a new town has been traced out near the shore, at the south-east base of the steep Borj Jedid hills, and south of the islet where still stands the castle occupied by the Genoese Lomellini

family from 1540 to 1742. A few ruins of Roman buildings attest the importance which this place enjoyed at the time when it was connected by broad roads with the marble quarries of Simittu, and along the coast with Hippo and Hippo-Zarytus. Two modern routes now lead into the interior: one running from Tabarka to Calle,