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(or Khahan) could have found its way through these impedi- 
ments 
In the chart of Cellarius, as Dr. Della Celia has truly observed, we 
find the Cinyphus placed to the eastward of the Cephalas Promon- 
torium, in opposition to the testimonies of Strabo and Ptolemy, and 
of most other writers of respectability. But it is merely with a 
view to reconcile contending authorities that this position has been 
assigned to the river ; for it will be evident, by a reference to the 
text of Cellarius, that it is not the one adopted by himself f . It 
may be possible, also, (in addition to the authorities of the Itinerary 
and the Augustan table which he mentions) that Cellarius has been 
induced to place his Cinyphus thus far to the eastward, in conse- 
quence of a passage in Pliny, and of a remark which he has also 
quoted from Ptolemy. Pliny fixes the country of the Lotophagi 
in the most southern recess of the Greater Syrtis, and Ptolemy 
observes of these people, that they inhabited the neighbourhood ot 
the Cinyphus p It becomes necessary, therefore, in order to recon- 
cile these statements, either to place the Cinyphus nearer to the 
centre of the Gulf, or to move the Lotophagi nearer to the Cinyphus. 
* It will be seen from the account of Lebida annexed, with which we have lately been 
favoured by Capt. Smyth, that the river actually takes its rise in the low range of hills 
above mentioned, situated between four and five miles from the coast ; so that the dis- 
tance of Herodotus is much too great. 
f See Lib. 4. Cap. 3. 
+ In intimo sinu fuit ora Lotophagon, quos quidam Alachroos dixere, ad Philaenorum 
aras. — (Hist. Nat. Lib. v. c. 4.) 
The words of Ptolemy are — IlEgi avrov tov ‘kotoci/.w (Kivt/(pov) Aoro(payoi. 
