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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 predicted by our escort — Departure from Lebida — Remains of the Aqueduct, and of the Causeway 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 description 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