On The Other, Or Western Side, The Carthaginian
Dominions Extended As Far As The Pillars Of Hercules, A Distance, According
To Polybius, Of 16,000 Stadia, Or 2000 Miles; But, According To The More
Accurate Observations Of Dr. Shaw, Only 1420 Geographical Miles.
Next to Carthage itself, the city of Utica was most celebrated as a place
of commerce:
It lay a short distance to the west of Carthage, and on the
same bay. It had a large and convenient harbour; and after the destruction
of Carthage, it became the metropolis of Africa Propria. Neapolis was also
a place of considerable trade, especially with Sicily, from which the
distance was so short, that the voyage could be performed in two days and a
night. Hippo was a frontier town on the side of Numidia; though Strabo
says, there were two of the same name in Africa Propria. The Carthaginian
Hippo had a port, arsenal, storehouses, and citadel: it lay between a large
lake and the sea. We have already noticed the etymological meaning of the
word Cothon: that this meaning is accurate may be inferred from the word
being applied to several artificial harbours in the Carthaginian dominion,
besides that of Cartilage itself: it was applied to the port of Adrumetum,
a large city built on a promontory, - and to the port of Thapsus, a maritime
town, situated on a kind of isthmus, between the sea and a lake. The
artificial nature, of this latter harbour is placed beyond all doubt, as
there is still remaining a great part of it built on frames:
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 57 of 1007
Words from 15475 to 15738
of 273188
