118 JOURNEY FROM The similarity of the names of Zuchis and Zuca and the narrow width which is given to the latter would certainly appear to be in favour of our suggestion ; but then the Lake Zuchis is in the Lesser Syrtis, near the town of the same name which Strabo has mentioned as being famous for its purple dye and its saltworks ; and in pointing it out as that intended by D’Anville, we must suppose that this geographer has confounded the two passages of Strabo, and, consequently, the two lakes, together. As this, however, appears (at least to us) very probable, from the reasons which we have mentioned above, we will submit to our readers the two passages in question on which our supposition is founded, and proceed to consider the lake first alluded to as wholly distinct from the Gulf of Zuca, to which it has really no sufficient resemblance to authorize us in supposing them to be the same.

We may state at the same time, in positive terms, that no inlet now exists in any part of the Greater Syrtis which resembles the Gulf of Zuca in question ; and that it might certainly be altogether expunged from the charts, without the least impropriety ; unless indeed its position be shifted from the Greater, to the Gulf of the Lesser, Syrtis.

* Mstcc Se rm SygTiv (the Lesser Syrtis is here meant,) syi Xi/avw rsrpajtoTiiwv, fEvov sx»i7a Ei(TwX.«v, Jtai •TTas')’ ccvrm TtoXts oixmvi/,os •Ko(pvqaQixipsiix Ejsjua xai ratqi%SKx.s Travrooc’TTas' — (Lib. 17, 18.)

D’Anville’s words are these — “ Strabon parle d’un grand lac debouchant dans la Syrte, et ce lac forme une saline dont 1’ entree est nomme la Succa." — (G6og. Ancienne, tom. 3, p. 70.)

The circumstance of there being saltworks in the Mesurata lake, as well as in that of the Lesser Syrtis, will tend to strengthen the idea of their having been confounded.