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daughter of a Carthaginian senator and demanded her in
marriage. Consent was given on the condition that he brought
the waters of Zaghouan and Djougar to Carthage. The work
was long and tedious, and at the moment of completion the
girl died. A younger sister stepped forward to take her place.
The work was finished and the marriage was celebrated.
The source of the main supply from Mount Zaghouan lies
at a short distance from the modern town of Zaghouan, which
replaced a Roman village or settlement probably called Zeugi-
tanus. But this is purely conjectural, learned archaeologists
having given the name of Villa Magna to the old Roman town.
There are the remains of a triumphal arch, which Shaw says
was decorated with sculpture, but absence of inscriptions deprives
this ruined monument of any interest. The name of this town
may be synonymous with Zeugitania, the title by which Africa
Provincia was known at the time of the Roman invasion. Shaw
says that the boundary of the province was at the foot of the
mountain now called Zaghouan, and adds that the Zygantes
mentioned by Herodotus were the presumed inhabitants of this
country. The waters of Zaghouan are not only renowned for
their purity, but for certain properties useful in dyeing. At the
present time a considerable industry has arisen in the dyeing of
the red caps worn in Mohammedan countries, called chachias,
in Egypt tarboosh, and in Turkey fez. But the special interest
in the place, in connection with the reign of Hadrian, is centred
in the monumental remains of a small temple constructed under
the spur of the mountain, to mark the source of the water
supply and to commemorate the achievement of a magnificent
undertaking. The temple is on a small scale, and is placed in
the centre of the arc of a semicircular colonnade, the entire
composition bearing some resemblance to a Roman theatre as
seen from the proscenium, or recalling, on a much smaller scale,
the portico of St. Peter's at Rome with its colonnades. The
width of this colonnade at Zaghouan is 15 feet; the columns in
front were of the Corinthian order, the roof was vaulted, and
the back wall resting against a lower slope of the mountain was
built with finely cut blocks of stone. In each alternate inter-
columniation was a niche for a statue. The total number of
intercolumniations was twenty-four, twelve on each side the
central temple. The entire area in front, 94 feet wide and
marriage. Consent was given on the condition that he brought
the waters of Zaghouan and Djougar to Carthage. The work
was long and tedious, and at the moment of completion the
girl died. A younger sister stepped forward to take her place.
The work was finished and the marriage was celebrated.
The source of the main supply from Mount Zaghouan lies
at a short distance from the modern town of Zaghouan, which
replaced a Roman village or settlement probably called Zeugi-
tanus. But this is purely conjectural, learned archaeologists
having given the name of Villa Magna to the old Roman town.
There are the remains of a triumphal arch, which Shaw says
was decorated with sculpture, but absence of inscriptions deprives
this ruined monument of any interest. The name of this town
may be synonymous with Zeugitania, the title by which Africa
Provincia was known at the time of the Roman invasion. Shaw
says that the boundary of the province was at the foot of the
mountain now called Zaghouan, and adds that the Zygantes
mentioned by Herodotus were the presumed inhabitants of this
country. The waters of Zaghouan are not only renowned for
their purity, but for certain properties useful in dyeing. At the
present time a considerable industry has arisen in the dyeing of
the red caps worn in Mohammedan countries, called chachias,
in Egypt tarboosh, and in Turkey fez. But the special interest
in the place, in connection with the reign of Hadrian, is centred
in the monumental remains of a small temple constructed under
the spur of the mountain, to mark the source of the water
supply and to commemorate the achievement of a magnificent
undertaking. The temple is on a small scale, and is placed in
the centre of the arc of a semicircular colonnade, the entire
composition bearing some resemblance to a Roman theatre as
seen from the proscenium, or recalling, on a much smaller scale,
the portico of St. Peter's at Rome with its colonnades. The
width of this colonnade at Zaghouan is 15 feet; the columns in
front were of the Corinthian order, the roof was vaulted, and
the back wall resting against a lower slope of the mountain was
built with finely cut blocks of stone. In each alternate inter-
columniation was a niche for a statue. The total number of
intercolumniations was twenty-four, twelve on each side the
central temple. The entire area in front, 94 feet wide and