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The similarity of the names of Zuchis and Zuca and the narrow 
width which is given to the latter would certainly appear to be in 
favour of our suggestion ; but then the Lake Zuchis is in the Lesser 
Syrtis, near the town of the same name which Strabo has mentioned 
as being famous for its purple dye and its saltworks ; and in pointing 
it out as that intended by D’Anville, we must suppose that this 
geographer has confounded the two passages of Strabo, and, con- 
sequently, the two lakes, together. As this, however, appears (at 
least to us) very probable, from the reasons which we have men- 
tioned above, we will submit to our readers the two passages in 
question on which our supposition is founded, and proceed to con- 
sider the lake first alluded to as wholly distinct from the Gulf of 
Zuca, to which it has really no sufficient resemblance to authorize 
us in supposing them to be the same. 
We may state at the same time, in positive terms, that no inlet 
now exists in any part of the Greater Syrtis which resembles the 
Gulf of Zuca in question ; and that it might certainly be altogether 
expunged from the charts, without the least impropriety ; unless 
indeed its position be shifted from the Greater, to the Gulf of the 
Lesser, Syrtis. 
* Mstcc Se rm SygTiv (the Lesser Syrtis is here meant,) syi Xi/avw rsrpa- 
jtoTiiwv, fEvov sx»i7a Ei(TwX.«v, Jtai •TTas')’ ccvrm TtoXts oixmvi/,os •Ko^(pvqaQixipsiix Ej^sjua xai ratqi%SKx.s 
Travro^oc’TTas' — (Lib. 17, ^ 18.) 
D’Anville’s words are these — “ Strabon parle d’un grand lac debouchant dans la 
Syrte, et ce lac forme une saline dont 1’ entree est nomm^e la Succa." — (G6og. Ancienne, 
tom. 3, p. 70.) 
The circumstance of there being saltworks in the Mesurata lake, as well as in that 
of the Lesser Syrtis, will tend to strengthen the idea of their having been confounded. 
