246 JOURNEY FROM tion, sloping outwards from the top, of twenty feet in length by twelve, which appears to have served both as a tower and a buttress.

The measurements are here given in the rough, but they will be found in detail by a reference to the ground-plan and elevation ISTo, 9, in the plate containing the details of some of the forts which have been noticed in the course of the journey.

In some instances we found wells in the trenches surrounding the forts, at others, within the outer walls ; and more frequently without the forts altogether, among traces of building in their immediate vicinity. T. he remains of building last mentioned were sometimes very considerable ; but the ground-plans alone of these are now extant, from which little more may be collected than that the chambers were built in squares, ranged in line with some attention to regularity, though differing a good deal in size. Tombs are occasionally found excavated in the neighbourhood of such forts as are built on a rocky soil; but we never were fortunate enough to find any thing in them which could point out decidedly the mode of burial which had been adopted. Some of these were entered by wells of different depths, and others by approaches cut in the rock, sloping down from the upper part of the door, like those in front of the Kings’ tombs at Thebes.

The remains about Ghimenes and Imshaila may answer to those of the Diachersis Preesidium of Ptolemy ; but we are not aware of any remains which may be pointed out on the coast as those of the Turris Herculis, or of the Diarrhoea Portus, of this geographer.

When we had arrived within a day’s journey of Bengazi, the wea-