TRIPOLY TO BENGAZr. 161 The columns at this place are “ tolerably high,” and they are also quadrangular, and have the advantage of a pedestal, as the Doctor has remarked of his boundary stones. But then they are not of sandstone, nor of any stone at all, that is, not of any blocks of stone, but merely of small irregular fragments of stone, put together with cement, with which they are cased, and which gives them the appearance at a little distance of being formed of a single piece. Then, instead of one, there are two upon one pedestal, and unless we suppose that the Doctor saw them in one direction only, when the two were in one, it is not easy to account for this difference between his description and the reality. The characters which are upon them do certainly coincide with those mentioned by Signor Della Celia, so far as the circumstance of their being wholly illegible is concerned ; for they consist altogether of unmeaning scrawls, and of some of those marks which are used by the Arabs to distinguish their particular tribes *, and have been scratched for * We subjoin a few of these characteristic marks, with the names of the tribe, to which they belong, attached. Some of them, it will be seen, resemble Greek letters, and when they are well cut, have a very knowing appearance, Mogharbe, Ouarghir, Wled Suliman, Orfilli, W61ed Ben-Miriam, I -7X □ A [>-=* Weled Abou-Saif, Gedadfa, Hemamla, Zoazi, Zoeia, A X Hassoun, Gebshia, Name forgotten.

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