CONTENTS.

Remarks on tlieir formation, and on the accumulation of Sand in other places — Dangers of

the Sand-storm considered — Passage over tlie Sandy Tract to the eastward of Tagiura — Arrive at Wady Ramleh — Stormy weather at that place — Take leave of our European

friends who had accompanied us from Tripoly — Continuance of the gale — Arrive at

Wady’m’Seyd — Attempt to pass, without success, across the Sand-hills to the Coast — Arrive

at Guadigmata — Position of Graphara, as laid down by Scylax, considered — Ancient remains

discovered by Captain Smyth in the neighbourhood of Wady’m’Seyd and Abdellata — Remarks on these, considered as the remains of Graphara — Scuffle with the Arabs at Sidy

Abdellati — Remains at that place indicative of an ancient military station — Cross the range

of Selem — Extensive view from its summit over the fertile plains of Lebida and Jumarr —

Rains still continue — Distress of the Camels — Meet with the English Consul on his return

from an Excursion to Lebida— Report of a troop of marauding Arabs lying in wait for our Party - 33

CHAPTER IV.

Arrival at Lebida — Remarks on its position and resources as compared with those of Tripoly

— Short account of the City and its remains — Allusion to the African Tribe Levatae (or

Levata) by Procopius — The same Tribe mentioned by Leo Africanus — Suggestions of Major Rennell on the resemblance between the terms Levata and Libya — Former position of this

Tribe near the Coast confirmed by Procopius — Remarks on the term Lybia — Visit from the

Shekh of Lebida — Violent Storm at that place retards tlie advance of the party — Intrusion

upon the premises of a celebrated Mardbtit — Dangerous consequences of this intrusion pre-

dicted by our escort — Departure from Lebida — Remains of the Aqueduct, and of the Cause-

way mentioned by Strabo — Arrive at the River Cinyphus, now Wad’el Khdhan — Remarks

on the River and the Morass in its immediate Neighbourhood — Observations on the faulty

position of the Cinyphus in the Maps of Cellarius— This position probably suggested by some

remarks of Pliny, Ptolemy, and Mela— Extreme fertility of the region of the Cinyphus — Remarks on this district, and that of Byzacium— Suggestions of Signor Della Celia with

respect to them — Present appearance of the region of the Cinyphus consistent with the de-

scription of Herodotus — Neglected condition of the district under the Arabs — Account of

Lebida and its remains by Captain Smyth ..-----50

CHAPTER V.

Arrival at Zeliten — Description of the Village and District of that name — Harbour of Zeliten

Remains in its Neighbourhood probably those of the Cisternae Oppidum of Ptolemy — Tomb of the Mardbut Sidy Abd el Saldm — Respect shewn to it by our party in passing before it

General appearance of these Structures — Arab credulity and superstition — Leave Zeliten Remains between it and Selin — Arrive at Selin, the Orir, apparently, of Signor Della Celia