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possible to fix the site of the town with any accuracy in a tract of 
country where ruins abound. 
We will content ourselves with repeating, that it may either be 
placed (upon the authority of the measurements stated above) at 
Mahad Hassan, at Zaffran, or in the neighbourhood of Jedeed ; but 
if we are to fix it on the authority of Abulfeda, we must remove it 
further eastward, to the neighbourhood of MedTnet Sultan, which is 
the spot we should ourselves prefer for it. 
Abulfeda, in mentioning the remains of the city of Sort, informs 
us that on the west of them is a Gulf called Eodaik, or Kodakiah, 
(apparently the same) says Major Eennell (with the Zadic Sinus of 
Edrisi) near which stands the town of Asna, one hundred and two 
Arabic miles, or one hundred and eight geographic, to the south- 
east of the Promontory of Kanem. 
The Promontory of Kanem may be considered as the western ex- 
tremity of the Greater Syrtis (say the Cephalas Promontorium in 
the neighbourhood of Mesurata) ; and a distance of one hundred and 
eight geographical miles from Mesurata would bring us within five 
miles of Zaffran, that is, five miles to the west of it ; for Zaffran is 
one hundred and thirteen miles from Mesurata. According to 
this measurement, we should be induced to place Asna at Zaffran, 
in the absence of any ruins, as we have stated above, between that 
place and Mahad Hassan 
* If Mahad Hassan may be taken as the Turns Hasan (or Cosr Asan) of Edrisi, with 
which it appears to correspond, we may fairly venture, perhaps, to place Asna at Zaffran, 
that place being thirty M. P. from Hasan, on the testimony of the Arab geographer, 
and Zaffrto thirty geographic miles from Mahad Hassan. The wells of Zaffran are, at 
the same time, on the beach, as those are said to be which Edrisi has mentioned at Asna. 
