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 is fully described by Shaw (p. 193) and Barth (pp. 100. foll.). The Saermin an udoog tha moBt intenBtiDg nmuna of CHrthige, especiallj on accooot of the p«ull«rij oftatmcted Tmlling trhich covers them. Thej ire pmbaWy of Pnuie w«knwiuhip. BeddcB hhtw inuller ante, then ire two pTLDdpil Mta; thoH oQ tha W. of the dtj, where Um nqnednct tanninaled, lod thwe on tha S., near IheCothou. (Shaw; Barth.)

9. fietidea ihe abore, there an rnina which aMio Ube those oi a TViaiJrs. and also tha remiiiuofa gTHt boilding, appareatlf the largest in the dtj, which Barth conjectnru to be the temple uf Coelestis. Theae ruin* comllt, lite the r«t, onlj of bnAea foondadHu. (Barth, 105, 106.)

10. The Soburh of M^ara, Magar, or Hagaltaf afterwirda oonudered ai a quarter S Ihe dtj, ander thenameof lbeNewCit7(N«(TsAii),waaBarToillKled bj a wall oT ita own, and adorned with beaDiifal garden!, watered bj canals. (Diod. ii. M Appian-viii. 117; Sery. ad Virg. Am. I 372; laidor. fijm. IT. 12.) It seemi to have occnpied Ihe eite on the KW. Bide of the penuuula. now called EUMrria, ' and ttJI the site of Ihe beaaCiful gardeaa of the wealth; ciliieni of Tonie.

11. Wwropoits.— From the few psTes fonnfl i the rocky soil of the hill of C. Ghamart, it seenprobable that here waa the ancient necropolii, N. i tile <atj, apoetin nwh h tu freqaen Ij if nc fenerellj, found n ether an ent citea Then ii however, some donbt on the matte wh ch the evi

PLAN OF CARTHAGE ACCORDING TO RITTER.

dence is insufficient to decide. (Tettnllian. ^oor^ 42: Barth, p. 107.)

It baa b«i alieadj' intimated that the Tiewi now stated are those onlj of one party tiaaag the peograpbere and scbelan who bava studied the topography of Carthage. Of thor general toTToctneM, we are more and mora convinced; but it seema only fur to th«e who desire to pnreue the subject further to exhibit Ihe nanlta of the oppwte views, in the form of the above (jimiDd-plan, copied bom the Adca Antiqutit of Spnuier, who baa taken it traia the Erdkmdt of Kul Bitter.

A very complete plan of the mina in their preaent state, by Falbe, is givea ui the periodkal entitled Attend, lor 1836, No. ISS.


 * 1) CARTHAGO NOVA ## CARTHA'GO NOVA (KopxuMr i, rJo, Polyb., Stnb., Plol., Li>., Mel., Flm., Steph. B., «. ■>., he.; Rdn) riKtt, Poljb. ii. 13, iiu 13, &c., Staph. B. Kofxifiit, Polyb. I. IS, Ath. iii. p. 9i ) Hispan* Carthago, Flor. ii. 6 ^ Kapx^fii§v mraf^Tayn^t, Appian. Iber. 12, Steph. B.; Carthago Spartaria, Plin. mi. 8. a. 43. /tin. Ant. pp. 396, 40!; laidor. Orig. XV. 1; laj often simply Carthago; EA. and Adj- Ksfixiiiw'un, Carthaginienaia t Cortagena a celebrated dty of Hispania TarracocrenBis, near Ihe S. extremity of the E. MMSt, in the tatitoiy of the Cunttsuni (PtoL ii. 6. g 14) co the fronlieia of the adetani. (Stiab.iii.p. 163.) It was « colony of Carthage, and was built B.C. 242 by Uaidmbal, the sonin-law of HamilcarBarca, and his Bncceaaor in Spain. (Smb. iii. p. ISSi Polyb. it. 13; Mela, ii. 6. § 7; Solin. 33; Diod. %c. uv. 3; Polraen. SOvllxg. viiL ■" '• ■ ■-— > -..— „^ ^ l^end of an ings after the Troj. e b, Ten, 3.6 3; 192.) The ajxlhet Nota added todiatingrusb it from Carthage in Afi^ tha doable mtroductiw of the word Nea {Nan Nat Cily) thns made haa been oteitioiKd under.

Iti eiination wu meat admirable, lying ai it did near the middle of the Meditemincan (or, aa the ancients chooae to call it, the S.) cuatt of Spain, at a moat convenient position for the passage to AfHca (i. e. the Carthaginian temlory), and having the only good harbour on that coast (Polyb. it. 13. i. '; Strah. iii. p. 158; Liv. uvi. 42.) Polyllaa itimites its distance from the Colomns of Hercula at 3000 stadia, and from the Ibems (£6ro) 2600 (iii. 39). Scipio's army look seven dayj to reach it from the Ebro, both by land and sea (Polyb. i. 9; U*. uvi. 4!); but at another lime ten days. (Liv. Iiviii. 32.) Stribo makea ita diatancs along the coast from Calpe 2600 stadia (iii. p 156), ud from Massilii {Maruiilt) above 6000; and, acraea the Hediterranean, to the opporale cafe of Melagonium, on Ihe coast of the Uaaaeayli, 3000 stadia (iviii. pp.827,828, fromTimoBtheiie8;Lii. uviii. 17). Pliny (iii. 3.8. 4) gives 187 M.P.fbr the distance from the neighbouring headland Satami Pr. (C. dt Palof) to Caesareia in Uauretaniiu The Mariliroe Itineraty gives 3000 stadia to Caoareia, and 400 stadia to the island of Ebuaus (/Jw. AnL pp. 496, 511).

New Carthage stood a little W. of the proniontory!t named (C. di Pidoi), U. the bottom of a bay 'knking to the S., in the mouth of which lay an island (Herculjs or Scombraria 1.*), which shdtered u p. 159 1 SJce/iCpoffk, 