The line of the coast has been in the course of centuries so much changed that the former local relations are but imperfectly recognizable on the ancient site.

The name of the city is preserved by Cape Cartagena--also called from the saint's tomb found there Ras Sidi bu Said--the eastern headland of the peninsula, projecting into the gulf with its highest point rising to 393 feet above the level of the sea.
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The dimensions given by Beule (Fouilles a Carthage, 1861) are as follows in metres and in Greek feet (1=0.309 metre):-- Outer wall 2 metres = 6 1/2 feet.
Corridor 1.9 " = 6 " Front wall of casemates 1 " = 3 1/4 " Casemate rooms 4.2 " = 14 " Back wall of casemates 1 " = 3 1/4 " -- ---------------------- Whole breadth of the walls 10.1 metres = 33 feet.
Or, as Diodorus (p.

522) states it, 22 cubits (1 Greek cubit = 1 1/2 feet), while Livy (ap.Oros.iv.

22) and Appian (Pun.