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phium, instead of juice and silphium ; or, as Buonacciuoli very 
badly translates it, ‘il belgioino e il silfio.’ — You will agree with me 
(he concludes, addressing the professor) in this little alteration in 
the text of the Grecian geographer.” 
He then leaves the subject, records another march through a very 
hot day, and describes a visit with which he was honoured by the 
Bey in his tent, and the excellent supper which he made off an 
ostrich’s egg, which His Highness in his munificence had presented 
him with. The supper and the chapter finish together, and the 
Doctor goes to sleep, without further discussion, as soon as the meal 
is over. 
The position of Zaffran, with respect to the marsh, and to the 
port which bears its name, will perhaps authorize us to consider it 
as the Aspis of Strabo ; and we have already stated the reasons why 
we think it not improbable that it may be : but the necessity for 
placing Charax and the tower of Euphrantas in the positions 
assigned to them by Signor Della Celia, does not seem, in our opinion, 
to be quite so great as the Doctor has imagined. For the tower sur- 
mounted with a cupola, which he has supposed to be the same with the 
tower of Euphrantas, has no pretensions whatever to half the antiquity 
which it would be necessary in that case to assign to it : it is in fact 
nothing more than a rudely-formed Arab building, and never could, 
at any time, have aspired to the title of tower, had it even been 
built under the dynasty of the Ptolemies. It appears to have been 
a dwelling-house, somewhat resembling the tomb of a MarabiJt ; but 
being situated on the top of a range of hills overlooking the road, it 
appears more important from below than could well be imagined by 
