BENGAZI. 377 the part which ran down from the gateway with that which we discovered on the opposite side of the quarry, extending itself from thence to the sea. The remains of the wall between the quarry and the sea are very conspicuous and decided ; they run down quite to the water’s edge, and are here about eight feet in thickness, and, in some parts, as much as twelve and thirteen feet in height Without these (to the westward), almost buried in sand, are the remains of the Naustathmos (or naval station), built for the protection of vessels : they begin from the wall, following the line of the beach towards the mouth of the western ravine, and were themselves protected from the sea by a breakwater of about fourteen feet in thickness. The walls of the v(pof/.oi (uphormoi)f are seven feet in thickness, and the spaces which they inclose, where the vessels were stationed, as much as thirty and forty feet across, in those parts which the sand had not altogether covered. To the westward of the ravine, other traces of wall are visible, extending themselves from that (in a line with the beach) along a road which leads towards the quarries, in which are the insulated tombs already alluded to, represented in plate (p. 355). Further traces of walls are observable running round this harbour towards the point marked A in the plan ; and it seems to have been altogether divided from the inland country, as we find * We mean, of course, in their present ruined state, for the original height of the wall cannot now be ascertained.

•f These divisions, composing the Naustathmos, were termed (ormoi), vtpogpt-oi (uphormoi), or vavXojcot (naulokoi), as mentioned in the account of the ports and harbours at the end of the Narrative.