It is watered by a river, the Sujerass, which falls into the Mejerda, (Bagradas.) Tibesh is still remarkable for its walls of large stones, (like the Coliseum of Rome,) a fountain, and a grove of walnut-trees: the country is fruitful, and the neighboring Bereberes are warlike.

It appears from an inscription, that, under the reign of Adrian, the road from Carthage to Tebeste was constructed by the third legion, (Marmol, Description de l'Afrique, tom.ii.p.442, 443.

Shaw's Travels, p.

64, 65, 66.)] [Footnote 411: Corripus (Johannidos lib.iii.

417--441) describes the defeat and death of Solomon .-- M.] [Footnote 5: Procopius, Anecdot.c.18.The series of the African history at tests this melancholy truth.] The jealousy of the Byzantine court had not permitted Belisarius to achieve the conquest of Italy; and his abrupt departure revived the courage of the Goths, [6] who respected his genius, his virtue, and even the laudable motive which had urged the servant of Justinian to deceive and reject them.