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Greeks, Avliicli very often change tlieir localities. Not far 

 from tlie city, and running before it, is the river Lethon, 

 and with it a sacred grove, where the gardens of the Hes- 

 perides are said to have formerly stood ; this city is distant 

 from Leptis 375 miles. Prom Berenice to Arsinoe, com- 

 monly called Teuchii'a, is forty-three miles ; after which, at 

 a distance of twenty-two, we come to Ptolemais, the ancient 

 name of which was Barce ; and at a distance of forty miles 

 from this last the Promontory of Phycus\ which extends far 

 away into the Cretan Sea, being 350 miles distant from Taena- 

 rum-, the promontory of Laconia, and from Crete 225. After 

 passing tliis promontory we come to Cyreue, which stands 

 at a distance of eleven miles from the sea. Prom Phycus 

 to ApoUonia^ is twenty-four miles, and from thence to the 

 Chersonesus^ eighty-eight ; from which to Catabathmos^ is a 

 distance of 216 miles. The Marmarida^'^ inhabit this coast, 

 extending from almost the region of Para^tonium^ to the 

 Greater Syrtis ; after them the Ararauceles, and then, upon 

 the coasts of the Syrtis, the Nasamones^, whom the Greeks 



^ IS'ow called Eas-Sem or Eas-El-Kazat. It is situate a little to the 

 west of Apolloilia and N.W. of Cyrene. 



" According to Ansart, 264 miles is the real distance between Capes 

 Bas-Sem and Tsenarum or Matapan. 



3 As ah'eady mentioned, Apollonia formed the harbour of Cyrene. 



^ This was called the Chersonesus Magna, being so named in contra- 

 chstmction to the Chersonesus Parva, on the coast of Egypt, about thirty- 

 five miles west of Alexandria. It is now called Kas-£1-Tm, or more 

 commonly Raxatin. 



^ So called from the pecuhar features of the locahty, the Greek word 

 KaTa(ia9ixus, signifying "a descent." A deep valley, bounded east! and 

 west by ranges of liigh hills, runs from this spot to the frontiers of 

 Egypt. It is again mentioned by Phny at the end of the present 

 Chapter. The spot is still known by a similar name, being called JMarsa 

 Sollem, or the " Port of the Ladder." In earlier times the Eg}ptian 

 territory ended at the Gulf of Plinthinethes, now Lago Segio, and did not 

 extend so far as Catabathmos. 



6 This name was unknown to Herodotus. As Marcus observes, it 

 was probably of Phoenician origin, signifying " leaduig a wandermg life," 

 like the term " nomad," derived from the Greek. 



" Now called El Bareton or Marsa-Labeit. This city was of consi- 

 derable importance, and belonged ]>roperly to Marmaria, but was included 

 politically in the Nomos Libya of Egypt. It stood i^oar the promontory 

 of Artos or Pythis, now Ras-El-IIazeit. 



8 So called from the words Maid-Ammon; " the tribe of Amnion,'* ac- 



