376 BENGAZI.

possible to give any satisfactory account of them, and we have not ventured, in our plan of the town, to hazard any attempt at restoring them. There are also some interesting remains of buildings at the north-eastern angle of the city, where part of a quarry has been enclosed within the walls for the better defence of the place, to which indeed it effectually contributes ; a strong fort has been built at this angle, in an elevated and commanding position, which appears to have been the citadel, or strong-hold of the town. Without the walls, to the westward of the town, there are also some interesting remains, the plans of which we attempted to complete without success : we found there a group in alto-relief, apparently of Koman workmanship, of which we have given an outline at page 367. There were probably, in earlier times, many statues in the city of Teuchira ; but none of them at present remain, not, at least, that we could discover ; and they have, perhaps, not survived the barbarism of the Vandals, or the fanaticism and ignorance of those who have succeeded them.

We now pass to the remains of Ptolemeta ; and shall begin by observing, that no traces of the wall, which originally enclosed it would present themselves to the notice of a casual observer in taking a general view of the town. On examination, however, in the neighbourhood of the gateway, with which it seems probable that walls have been connected, we discovered traces of them running straight down to the quarry, in which we have already mentioned the amphitheatre was built and excavated. Here we found that the wall had passed through the quarry ; and that a portion of the rock had been left on each side of it, in the line of the walfs direction, connecting