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The columns at this place are “ tolerably high,” and they are also 
quadrangular, and have the advantage of a pedestal, as the Doctor 
has remarked of his boundary stones. But then they are not of 
sandstone, nor of any stone at all, that is, not of any blocks 
of stone, but merely of small irregular fragments of stone, put 
together with cement, with which they are cased, and which gives 
them the appearance at a little distance of being formed of a single 
piece. Then, instead of one, there are two upon one pedestal, and 
unless we suppose that the Doctor saw them in one direction only, 
when the two were in one, it is not easy to account for this differ- 
ence between his description and the reality. The characters 
which are upon them do certainly coincide with those mentioned by 
Signor Della Celia, so far as the circumstance of their being wholly 
illegible is concerned ; for they consist altogether of unmeaning 
scrawls, and of some of those marks which are used by the Arabs 
to distinguish their particular tribes *, and have been scratched for 
* We subjoin a few of these characteristic marks, with the names of the tribe, to 
which they belong, attached. Some of them, it will be seen, resemble Greek letters, and 
when they are well cut, have a very knowing appearance, 
Mogharbe, Ouarghir, W^led Suliman, Orfilli, W61ed Ben-Miriam, 
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Weled Abou-Saif, Gedadfa, Hemamla, Zoazi, Zoeia, 
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Hassoun, Gebshia, Name forgotten. 
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