70 JOURNEY FROM 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 passage 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 *' riaiot S 71 a/no Kag5»iSovor fnXuv Efiv EySaii/xwv. t Libyphoenices vocantur qui Byzacium incolunt. Ita appellatur regio ccl. M. P. circuitu, fertilitatis eximiae, &c. — (Nat. Hist. Lib. v. c. 4.)