190 JOURNEY FROM conspicuous position, seems to make this place so very eligible a site for the castle in question, that we cannot refrain from pointing it out to our readers as the spot of all others which we could most wish should prove to be really such. We know the TTvyog Fjvcpa.vrai to have been a boundary tower, since it is expressly said by Strabo to have been the limits of Carthage and Gyrene under the Ptolemies; so far therefore the resemblance between this fort and that of Strabo appears to be sufficiently complete.

Again, amongst all the fortresses with which the Syrtis is filled, two only are mentioned in ancient history hi/ name, those of Euphrantas and Automala; audit would seem probable, from this circumstance (at least it appears so to us), that these castles should have been distinguished from others by conspicuous positions. Of all the positions occupied by forts between Zaffran and the point to which we are arrived, there is no one which can be materially distinguished from another but that of Bengerwad, which we have just been describing ; and this is so remarkably conspicuous a position, from the height of the eminence and its almost insulated situation on the beach, that it must have been at all times an object of importance from the sea, and could not fail to have been noticed by Strabo in his passage along this part of the coast. It is probable that the position of the Philmnean Altars was not sufficiently well calculated by nature for a boundary ; and that this circumstance, rather than the desire of increasing his territory in so unprofitable a district, induced one of the Ptolemies to remove the line of separation further westward to the castle of Euphrantas. In passing along the coast, in a westerly direction, from the sandy tract where the monuments