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still occupied by a rivulet, are various ruins of aqueducts, and some 
large reservoirs in excellent preservation. Between the principal 
cisterns and the torrent to the westward of Leptis, some artificial 
mounds are constructed across the plain, by which the winter rains 
were conducted to the reservoirs, and carried clear of the city. On 
the east bank of the river are remains of a galley-port, and numerous 
baths, adjacent to a circus, formerly ornamented with obelisks and 
columns, and above which are vestiges of a theatre. Indeed the 
whole plain from the Mergip hills to the Cinyphus (now the river 
Khahan) exhibits unequivocal proofs of its former population and 
opulence. 
Thus ended my unsuccessful research; but though no works of art 
were recovered, many of the architectural fragments were moved 
during the summer down to the beach, by Colonel Warrington, 
where I called for and embarked them on board a store-ship for 
England, together with thirty-seven shafts, which formed the prin- 
cipal scope of the expedition, and they are now in the court of the 
British Museum. Still we were sorry to find that neither the raft- 
ports nor the hatchways of the Weymouth were capable of admitting 
three fine Cipolline columns of great magnitude, that, from their 
extreme beauty and perfection, we had been particularly anxious 
about. 
