66 JOURNEY FROM (or Khahan) could have found its way through these impediments In the chart of Cellarius, as Dr. Della Celia has truly observed, we find the Cinyphus placed to the eastward of the Cephalas Promontorium, in opposition to the testimonies of Strabo and Ptolemy, and of most other writers of respectability. But it is merely with a view to reconcile contending authorities that this position has been assigned to the river ; for it will be evident, by a reference to the text of Cellarius, that it is not the one adopted by himself f . It may be possible, also, (in addition to the authorities of the Itinerary and the Augustan table which he mentions) that Cellarius has been induced to place his Cinyphus thus far to the eastward, in consequence of a passage in Pliny, and of a remark which he has also quoted from Ptolemy. Pliny fixes the country of the Lotophagi in the most southern recess of the Greater Syrtis, and Ptolemy observes of these people, that they inhabited the neighbourhood ot the Cinyphus p It becomes necessary, therefore, in order to reconcile these statements, either to place the Cinyphus nearer to the centre of the Gulf, or to move the Lotophagi nearer to the Cinyphus.

* It will be seen from the account of Lebida annexed, with which we have lately been favoured by Capt. Smyth, that the river actually takes its rise in the low range of hills above mentioned, situated between four and five miles from the coast ; so that the distance of Herodotus is much too great.

f See Lib. 4. Cap. 3.

+ In intimo sinu fuit ora Lotophagon, quos quidam Alachroos dixere, ad Philaenorum aras. — (Hist. Nat. Lib. v. c. 4.)

The words of Ptolemy are — IlEgi avrov tov ‘kotoci/.w (Kivt/(pov) Aoro(payoi.