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those who might only have examined it closely ; and it is probable 
that the view of it which Signor Della Celia obtained, and which 
suggested to him the analogy between it and the tower of Euphran- 
tas, was from the road in the plain below. It is certainly somewhat 
singular that, in a place where several ancient forts , may be observed, 
the Doctor should have pitched upon an Arab building as the bound- 
ary of the Cyrenaic and Carthaginian territory : but had he even been 
willing to adopt one of the forts as the tow er, it would have been dif- 
ficult to select any one from the number which had more claim than 
the rest to that distinction ; and there does not, in fact, appear to 
be any building at Zaffran sufficiently conspicuous to be considered 
as the structure in question. 
It seems to us that the tower of Euphrantas should be looked for 
in some commanding situation, which either occasioned its being built, 
or selected as a boundary for the kingdoms we have mentioned ; and 
there seems to be no more reason for placing it at Zaffran than at 
Medfiiet Sultan, where there are also many forts ; except that the 
term (following upon, or succeeding to,) which Strabo uses 
to point out its position, would induce us to place it as soon after Aspis 
as circumstances would seem to allow'. At all events, we do not hesi- 
tate in rejecting the “ torre sormontata da una cupola” as the tower 
of Euphrantas ; and we should much rather, if it be necessary to place 
this structure at Zaffran, select for its representative one of the for- 
tresses already mentioned, than any building like that w hich is sug- 
gested by Signor Della Celia, were it even of ancient construction. 
There is another building which stands in a conspicuous position 
on the same range of hills where the Doctor’s tow'er is situated, and 
