154 JOURNEY FROM Sooleb and Barca. The ruins of Medina are situated within this territory; and supposing them to be actually the remains of Sort, we may imagine that when this city lost its former name, it continued to be distinguished as the city, (the Medina) of the district to which its name of Sort had been transferred*.

This arrangement will place the city of Sort at least forty miles to the eastward of its position according to the measurements above stated from Edrisi : but a short distance in reckoning is always preferable to a long one, and we should on that account prefer taking the distance of Sort from Asna to reckoning it from Tripoly as above. For the same reason the measurement of Abulfeda, from the Promontory of Kanem to Asna, is more likely to be correct than that of Edrisi from Tripoly to the city of Sort.

The Gulf of Kodaik (or Kodakiah) might have served to elucidate this question had there been anything like it remaining ; but it will be seen, on a reference to the chart, that there is no appearance oji this part of the coast which can at all be considered as a gulf ; and this vrill of course equally apply to the Sinus Zadic of Edrisi.

We will not at present pursue this subject further, but leaving our readers to judge, from the data already given, how far we may be authorized in placing the city of Sort in the position we have ventured to suggest for it, we will proceed to notice some remains which are found in the neighbourhood of Zaffran.

* The remains of Medinet Sultiin are on a larger scale than those of Medina, and might on that account have been termed Sultan ; but they are rather those of an important military station than of a city, and we prefer taking Medina as the position of Sort for this reason.