150 JOURNEY FROM CHAPTER VII.

Remarks on the City of Sort, or Sert, of Edrisi and other Arab Geographers— Description of it hy Leo Africanus— Position of Sert, on the Authority of Ahulfeda — ZafFran considered as Asna — Remarks of Major Rennell on these Places — Remains at Medinet Sultkn considered as those of Sort — Columns and other Remains described hy Signor Della Celia, in the Neighbourhood of ZafFran — Train of Argument adopted hy the Doctor on this Occasion — Remarks of the same Writer on the Tower of Euphrantas, and the Town of Charax, as laid down hy Strabo — Nature of the Inscriptions on the Columns alluded to by Signor Della Celia — Formidable Appearance of the Coast at ZafFran — 'General Appearance of the Country in its Neighbourhood — Species of Crocus abounding there — Obliging Treatment of our Party by the Arabs of ZafFran — Arrival at Medinet Sultai — Description of its Remains — Further Remarks on the Tower of Euphrantas — Arrival at Nehim — Aukward Situation of Sshekh Mahommed el Diibbah — Visit of the Diibbah to our Tent — Object of it discovered Departure of Shekh Mahommed, well pleased with the result of his Visit.

It is in the neighbourhood of Zaffran (if the measurements of Edrisi be correct) that we must look for the remains of the city of Sort or Sert, They are placed by this geographer at two hundred and thirty Arabic, or two hundred and forty-six geographic, miles from Tripoly: at least such is the distance given in the gross ; for the detail (as Major Rennell has already observed) allows no more than two hundred and ten Arabic miles, or two hundred and twenty-two geographic.

The first distance, of two hundred and forty -six geographic miles, would carry us seven miles beyond Zaffran, and within three of Jedeed, which is ten miles to the eastward of Zaffran.

The distance in detail, or two hundred and twenty-two geogra-