152 JOURNEY FROM possible to fix the site of the town with any accuracy in a tract of country where ruins abound.

We will content ourselves with repeating, that it may either be placed (upon the authority of the measurements stated above) at Mahad Hassan, at Zaffran, or in the neighbourhood of Jedeed ; but if we are to fix it on the authority of Abulfeda, we must remove it further eastward, to the neighbourhood of MedTnet Sultan, which is the spot we should ourselves prefer for it.

Abulfeda, in mentioning the remains of the city of Sort, informs us that on the west of them is a Gulf called Eodaik, or Kodakiah, (apparently the same) says Major Eennell (with the Zadic Sinus of Edrisi) near which stands the town of Asna, one hundred and two Arabic miles, or one hundred and eight geographic, to the southeast of the Promontory of Kanem.

The Promontory of Kanem may be considered as the western extremity of the Greater Syrtis (say the Cephalas Promontorium in the neighbourhood of Mesurata) ; and a distance of one hundred and eight geographical miles from Mesurata would bring us within five miles of Zaffran, that is, five miles to the west of it ; for Zaffran is one hundred and thirteen miles from Mesurata. According to this measurement, we should be induced to place Asna at Zaffran, in the absence of any ruins, as we have stated above, between that place and Mahad Hassan * If Mahad Hassan may be taken as the Turns Hasan (or Cosr Asan) of Edrisi, with which it appears to correspond, we may fairly venture, perhaps, to place Asna at Zaffran, that place being thirty M. P. from Hasan, on the testimony of the Arab geographer, and Zaffrto thirty geographic miles from Mahad Hassan. The wells of Zaffran are, at the same time, on the beach, as those are said to be which Edrisi has mentioned at Asna.