82. See Plin. Hist. Natur. v. 3; Cellarius, Geograph. Antiq.
part iii. p. 96; Shaw's Travels, p. 90; and for the adjacent
country (which is terminated by Cape Bona, or the promontory
of Mercury) l'Afrique de Marmol. tom. ii. p. 494. There are
the remains of an aqueduct near Curubis, or Curbis, at
present altered into Gurbes; and Dr. Shaw read an
inscription which styles that city Colonia Fulvia. The
deacon Pontius (in Vit. Cyprian. c. 12) calls it "Apricum et
competentem locum, hospitium pro voluntate secretum, et
quicquid apponi eis ante promissum est, qui regnum et
justitiam Dei quaerunt."