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doubt the same with the Cephalas of Strabo ; and being laid down a 
little without the gulf corresponds more exactly with the actual na- 
ture of the ground. Strabo certainly describes his promontory as 
forming the beginning or western extremity of the Syrtis ; but the 
circumstance above mentioned of his having seen it only from the sea, 
may be easily imagined to have occasioned this little inaccuracy, if 
such it may indeed be termed. 
We are at a loss to imagine what the promontory can be which 
Signor Della Celia has identified with that of Ptolemy (and which 
he states to have been two hours distant from Mesurata) unless the 
Cephalas itself be intended, or, in other words, the cape which we have 
supposed to be the Cephalas For, with the exception of this, there 
is no other high land which will in any respect answer to the triple 
cape of Ptolemy ; and this is not more than half an hour’s ride from 
the town, and is not in the route which the army must have taken 
in marching from Mesurata towards the Syrtis, as will be seen by a 
reference to the Chart. At the same time, we can neither persuade 
ourselves that Strabo would have instanced an accidental range of 
sand-hills as a promontory; nor that the word applied by this 
geographer to the Cephalas, can be supposed to mean distant, or 
deep, instead of high, as Signor Della Celia has imagined ; notwith- 
standing the passage cited from Homer, which the Doctor reads in 
favour of his argument f . 
* Dopo due ore di cammino giungemmo all’ estremita del Promontoi'io che sporge 
in tre punte divise da seni di mare : ond’ e che il nome di capo Triero con cui e chia- 
mato da Tolommeo ne esprime la forma. — Viaggio da Tripoli, 8(C., p. 60. 
•f* The observations connected with the transposition of the comma recommended by 
Signor Della Celia, are at the same time, we must confess, rather singular : for it does 
