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CHAPTER VII. 
Remarks on the City of Sort, or Sert, of Edrisi and other Arab Geographers— Description of 
it hy Leo Africanus— Position of Sert, on the Authority of Ahulfeda — ZafFran considered as 
Asna — Remarks of Major Rennell on these Places — Remains at Medinet Sultkn considered 
as those of Sort — Columns and other Remains described hy Signor Della Celia, in the 
Neighbourhood of ZafFran — Train of Argument adopted hy the Doctor on this Occasion — 
Remarks of the same Writer on the Tower of Euphrantas, and the Town of Charax, as laid 
down hy Strabo — Nature of the Inscriptions on the Columns alluded to by Signor Della 
Celia — Formidable Appearance of the Coast at ZafFran — 'General Appearance of the Country 
in its Neighbourhood — Species of Crocus abounding there — Obliging Treatment of our Party 
by the Arabs of ZafFran — Arrival at Medinet Sultai^ — Description of its Remains — Further 
Remarks on the Tower of Euphrantas — Arrival at Nehim — Aukward Situation of Sshekh 
Mahommed el Diibbah — Visit of the Diibbah to our Tent — Object of it discovered De- 
parture of Shekh Mahommed, well pleased with the result of his Visit. 
It is in the neighbourhood of Zaffran (if the measurements of Edrisi 
be correct) that we must look for the remains of the city of Sort or 
Sert, They are placed by this geographer at two hundred and thirty 
Arabic, or two hundred and forty-six geographic, miles from Tripoly: 
at least such is the distance given in the gross ; for the detail (as 
Major Rennell has already observed) allows no more than two 
hundred and ten Arabic miles, or two hundred and twenty-two 
geographic. 
The first distance, of two hundred and forty -six geographic miles, 
would carry us seven miles beyond Zaffran, and within three of 
Jedeed, which is ten miles to the eastward of Zaffran. 
The distance in detail, or two hundred and twenty-two geogra- 
