172 JOURNEY FROM certainly point it out as the more eligible position of the two, so far as the meaning of the term (rvHrjg may be concerned*. But the local advantages which the tower we shall hereafter mention at Bengerwad possesses (considered both as a boundary fortress, and as a very conspicuous object), would certainly induce us to give a greater latitude to the term in question, than we should, under other circumstances, have ventured to allow ; and we have accordingly given this fortress the preference in fixing the position of the tower of Euphrantas, or rather in suggesting a position for it which there is so little authority for fixing with accuracy f .

At Med met Sultan there is a sandy bay in which boats might find shelter with particular winds; and a lake commences here, apparently deep, which communicates with the sea in two places, and extends itself along the coast to the eastward. We narrowly examined the points of communication, in expectation of finding a passage through them by which small vessels might have entered the lake ; it being probable, from its vicinity to the ruins above-mentioned, that the lake might have been used as a port. But the nature of the beach without, which was altogether stony, running out into dangerous shallows impracticable for vessels of any kind, rendered the existence of such a passage impossible. The coast * It must be recollected that Strabo has described the tower of Euphrantas as contiguous to, or immediately succeeding, the port of Aspis, for so we must translate auMsxrts, if we take it in its strict and literal sense.

•f Among the several towers which present themselves at Medina Sultan, thei’e is no one which could be pointed out as more conspicuous in position than another ; and were the tower of Euphrantas to be fixed at this place, it would scarcely be possible to select one of them as its probable representative.