158 JOURNEY FROM those who might only have examined it closely ; and it is probable that the view of it which Signor Della Celia obtained, and which suggested to him the analogy between it and the tower of Euphrantas, was from the road in the plain below. It is certainly somewhat singular that, in a place where several ancient forts , may be observed, the Doctor should have pitched upon an Arab building as the boundary of the Cyrenaic and Carthaginian territory : but had he even been willing to adopt one of the forts as the tow er, it would have been difficult to select any one from the number which had more claim than the rest to that distinction ; and there does not, in fact, appear to be any building at Zaffran sufficiently conspicuous to be considered as the structure in question.

It seems to us that the tower of Euphrantas should be looked for in some commanding situation, which either occasioned its being built, or selected as a boundary for the kingdoms we have mentioned ; and there seems to be no more reason for placing it at Zaffran than at Medfiiet Sultan, where there are also many forts ; except that the term (following upon, or succeeding to,) which Strabo uses to point out its position, would induce us to place it as soon after Aspis as circumstances would seem to allow'. At all events, we do not hesitate in rejecting the “ torre sormontata da una cupola” as the tower of Euphrantas ; and we should much rather, if it be necessary to place this structure at Zaffran, select for its representative one of the fortresses already mentioned, than any building like that w hich is suggested by Signor Della Celia, were it even of ancient construction.

There is another building which stands in a conspicuous position on the same range of hills where the Doctor’s tow'er is situated, and