30 JOURNEY FROM writer, while they are merely styled cities by another, this objection may readily be waived. Garapha is by Ptolemy styled by Scylax mXig, by Pliny, Oppidum ; Abrotonum is by Strabo called otX/?, by Scylax mXtg xcct by Pliny, Oppidum : Leptis Magna is rarely mentioned as a port, although it is well known to have been one ; and many more examples might be adduced by those m ho would take the trouble to collect them.

Vhat is now called modern Tripoly has been said by some writers to have been built by the early inhabitants of Northern Africa, under the name of Tarabilis or Trebiles; and the same authors have stated that the Koman term of Tripohs is derived from the name which they bestowed upon it. We have already noticed the improbability of this latter supposition ; and we may now venture to add, that there appears to be no proof of any town having been built upon the site of modern Tripoly before the erection of the city of Oea.

Leptis Magna is known to have been built by the Phoenicians, on the authority of several Avriters of antiquity ; but the other two cities composing the Tripolis have always been considered of Roman origin, and no mention is made of any other having ever been assigned to them in works not comparatively modern.

Leo Africanus, who may be supposed to have compiled his account of Africa from the authority chiefly of Mahometan historians, has given his testimony in favour of the native origin of Tripoly, while he states that Tripoli Vecchia was built by the Romans. “ Questa,” (Tripoli Vecchia) says the African geographer, “ e una citta antica edificata pur da’ Romani but of the other town he states, “ Tri-