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Sooleb and Barca. The ruins of Medina are situated within this 
territory; and supposing them to be actually the remains of Sort, 
we may imagine that when this city lost its former name, it con- 
tinued to be distinguished as the city, (the Medina) of the district 
to which its name of Sort had been transferred*. 
This arrangement will place the city of Sort at least forty miles to 
the eastward of its position according to the measurements above 
stated from Edrisi : but a short distance in reckoning is always pre- 
ferable to a long one, and we should on that account prefer taking 
the distance of Sort from Asna to reckoning it from Tripoly as 
above. For the same reason the measurement of Abulfeda, from 
the Promontory of Kanem to Asna, is more likely to be correct than 
that of Edrisi from Tripoly to the city of Sort. 
The Gulf of Kodaik (or Kodakiah) might have served to elucidate 
this question had there been anything like it remaining ; but it will 
be seen, on a reference to the chart, that there is no appearance oji 
this part of the coast which can at all be considered as a gulf ; and 
this vrill of course equally apply to the Sinus Zadic of Edrisi. 
We will not at present pursue this subject further, but leaving 
our readers to judge, from the data already given, how far we may 
be authorized in placing the city of Sort in the position we have 
ventured to suggest for it, we will proceed to notice some remains 
which are found in the neighbourhood of Zaffran. 
* The remains of Medinet Sultiin are on a larger scale than those of Medina, and 
might on that account have been termed Sultan ; but they are rather those of an 
important military station than of a city, and we prefer taking Medina as the position 
of Sort for this reason. 
