TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI, «7 rata, the other to Eenioleed : we took the former, as nearest to the sea ; and at the distance of a few miles beyond Zeliten, we observed several scattered heaps of ruins on either side of the road ; most of these have been built on artificial mounds, with trenches round them, and appear to have formed parts of a military position ; but everything was so much mutilated and buried, that much time would have been necessary to make out their plans, which would scarcely indeed have recompensed the labour of excavation.

At sunset we arrived at Selin, where the tents were pitched near an ancient well, forty feet in depth, and containing a good supply of sweet water. At the distance of about two hundred yards from the well, we perceived upon a hill the remains of what appeared to have been a fort ; and many fragments of buildings were discernible here and there in the neighbourhood. This place seems to be the Orir of Dr. Delia Celia, but we could perceive no traces of the Mosaic pavement which he mentions, nor anything to mark the spot as the site of an ancient city. The Doctor has fixed upon Orir as the position of Cinsternm; and the circumstance of its occurring (in passing from west to east) immediately before the promontory which forms the western boundary of the Greater Syrtis, would, in truth, seem to favour the idea. But Zeliten appeared to us more adapted for the site of a city, and the remains of that place had more the character of parts of a town than those which were observable at Selin. We should conceive that the ruins to the eastward of Zeliten were those of a connected series of forts, and that no other buildings had been attached to them than such as are usually found in the neighbourhood of a military position. Cinsternee, however, was a town of