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standing ; and not even the ground plans of other parts of these 
remains could be obtained without excavation. We learnt, however, 
from Captain Smyth that, in the neighbourhood of Wady’m’Seyd, 
there is a small boat-cove resembling an ancient cothon ; and near it 
the ruins of several baths with tesselated pavements ; which must 
have been situated on that part of the coast which we were not able 
to visit, for the reasons mentioned above. To the eastward of these, 
another small port was also discovered by Captain Smyth (formed by 
a point of land between the Wadies of Ben-z-barra and Abdellata), at 
which the produce of the country is shipped off in the summer. The 
mouth of the Abdellata is described by this officer as forming a pic- 
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turesque cove, and he observed on its left bank (a little way inland) a 
village consisting of troglodytic caverns, excavated in the sand-stone 
rock ; many of which being furnished with doors, are used by the 
natives instead of the usual matamores, or subterranean storehouses, 
as granaries. 
The former of the ports here described may possibly have been 
that of Graphara required ; but as there are more extensive remains 
in the neighbourhood of that at Abdellata (or Abdellati), which we 
shall presently have occasion to mention, we will not venture to fix 
it as such decidedly. 
On the day after our arrival at Guadigmata, the weather proving 
still very bad, we did not proceed on our route ; but spent the day 
in examining and securing our baskets of provisions many of w'hich 
we found to have been wet through, and in making those other 
little arrangements which, notwithstanding all precautions, are 
