TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 157 phium, instead of juice and silphium ; or, as Buonacciuoli very badly translates it, ‘il belgioino e il silfio.’ — You will agree with me (he concludes, addressing the professor) in this little alteration in the text of the Grecian geographer.”

He then leaves the subject, records another march through a very hot day, and describes a visit with which he was honoured by the Bey in his tent, and the excellent supper which he made off an ostrich’s egg, which His Highness in his munificence had presented him with. The supper and the chapter finish together, and the Doctor goes to sleep, without further discussion, as soon as the meal is over.

The position of Zaffran, with respect to the marsh, and to the port which bears its name, will perhaps authorize us to consider it as the Aspis of Strabo ; and we have already stated the reasons why we think it not improbable that it may be : but the necessity for placing Charax and the tower of Euphrantas in the positions assigned to them by Signor Della Celia, does not seem, in our opinion, to be quite so great as the Doctor has imagined. For the tower surmounted with a cupola, which he has supposed to be the same with the tower of Euphrantas, has no pretensions whatever to half the antiquity which it would be necessary in that case to assign to it : it is in fact nothing more than a rudely-formed Arab building, and never could, at any time, have aspired to the title of tower, had it even been built under the dynasty of the Ptolemies. It appears to have been a dwelling-house, somewhat resembling the tomb of a MarabiJt ; but being situated on the top of a range of hills overlooking the road, it appears more important from below than could well be imagined by