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Teuchira, a fea-port that lay within the diftrid of Cjyrene, 
now better known by the names of Curin and Barca. 
Ptolemy's Nafamones, occupy, in refpedl of Augila^ the very 
fpot where the dates are now gathered in the plain of Gehahih : 
and therefore we may conclude that the Nafamones' Territories 
extended at leaft from that plain, to the Eallern Coaft of the 
Great Syrtis, It may, perhaps, in future, be known where the 
Port or Coaft of Duna is ;- whether it be Derna, the antient 
Darnis, or fome place on the Syrtis. 
Between Angela and See-wah, the next town towards Cairo 
(and probably the Siropum of Ptolemy) the road paiTes o^ er a 
chain of very high mountains, named in thefe times Gerdohab : 
and this is unqueftionably the fame ridge that terminates on 
the Mediterranean, a few days journey farther on ; and which 
by the fuddennefs of its defcent towards the fea, was antiently 
named Catahathmus, This chain or ridge divided Cyrene from 
Marmarica,. 
* Teuchira was fituated near the prefent Tolcmata ; antiently Ftolemais^- 
