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each other. These remains, forming at present nothing more than an 
imperfect ground-plan, are situated on a low rising ground close to 
the sea ; and between them and point Abou Shaifa the lake may 
have communicated with the gulf a little to the southward of the 
point. There are also some slight remains of building in the neigh- 
bourhood of this place, as well as in that of the causeway, occupying 
the low range which runs along the coast : but from the presence of 
the landing-place, at the communication first mentioned, we should 
be disposed to adopt it in preference to that at Abou Shaifa, as the 
<rTO(j(.a, or mouth, of the lake mentioned by Strabo. 
Signor Della Celia, in stating that the lake or marsh which we 
have mentioned, is the same with that laid down by D’Anville and 
other modern geographers, under the title of Gulf of Zuca, or Succa, 
has instanced the passage above quoted from Strabo in confirmation 
of this opinion. But the Gvdf of Zuca is represented as an inlet, or 
creek, of not more than four miles across in any part of it ; while 
Strabo’s lake is in width more than double that distance, and seems 
to bear no other resemblance to the gulf than that of having a com- 
munication with the sea. If, therefore, the Gulf of Zuca, as D’Anville 
himself has stated, be actually laid down on the authority of Strabo, 
we should rather look for its origin in another passage of this 
geographer which occurs before the one we have quoted. In this 
passage Strabo describes a Lake Zuchis, to which he attributes the 
peculiarity of a narrow entrance at the point of communication with 
the sea ; while he merely states, in his description of the lake we 
have first mentioned, that it emptied itself into the Gulf (of the 
Greater Syrtis). 
