•230 JOURNEY FROM ties, and we know of no name which can he properly bestowed upon it.

We should be the more inclined to consider the fortifications of Eraiga as those which are mentioned at Automala, from the circumstance of their vicinity to other remains, which answer extremely well to those of the maritime stationes laid down in the map of Ptolemy. In this map, the stations are placed a little to the northward of Automala, with no other place intervening ; and the position of Eraiga with regard to Tabilba, which answers precisely to the maritimce stationes, is exactly that assigned to Automala in the order here adopted by Ptolemy.

Sachreen may undoubtedly be considered as the extremity of the gulf in its present state ; but a place which was only twenty miles distant from it might well have been said to be situated in this recess, by a person who viewed it from the sea, particularly when the outline of this part of the gulf is considered at the same time. Eraiga, from the sea, must have, besides, been at all times very conspicuous ; and we can scarcely imagine that the fort which stands so high above the beach there would have been unnoticed by Strabo, had it existed in his time, which we may suppose with probability that it did.

He has, however, noticed only Automala ; and it remains to be considered how fiir we are really authorized in assuming these places as the same, upon the data already before the reader *.

* It may be added, that the forts in the neighbourhood of Braiga and Tabilba, erected amoncr the hills a little inland, are very interesting, and much more perfect than usual.

A fortnight or three weeks might be very profitably and agreeably spent in making out the interior ground-plans of these buildings.