TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 43 from the coast; and the heavy rains and torrents from the mountains have made several large ravines in this neighbourhood, which crossed our path in their passage to the sea : the most considerable of these are Wady Terragadt and Wady Booforris. Soon after four o’clock we reached Guadigmata, where we found a small Arab encampment, and pitched our tents for the night.

It is in the neighbourhood of Guadigmata, between that place and Wady’m’Seyd, that we must look for the Graphara of Scylax. For as that city is described by the geographer as being midway between Abrotonum and Leptis Magna, that is, a day’s sail from each — Guadigmata being 26 miles from Lebida, and the whole distance from Lebida to Tagiura 58| — it follows that the site of Graphara might be fixed three miles to the westward of Guadigmata ; which would place it at 29 miles’ distance from each of the cities in question, or half way between Lebida and Tagiura*.

I’here are, however, no remains to the westward of Guadigmata (between that place and Wady’m’Seid) that we could perceive in our route ; but two miles beyond Guadigmata there are some remains of building on a rising ground to the eastward of it, which are too much buried under the soil to allow us to give any satisfactory description of them. Two large upright stones, which seem to have been the jambs of a gateway, are all that are now * That is, if we suppose Tagiura to be the site of Abrotonum, as we have ourselves already admitted, under the difficulties stated above, and in the absence of more decided information than we have been able to obtain on the subject.