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the amusement of those who may from time to time have stopped 
to rest themselves in the shade which the pillars afforded. 
It will be seen by the drawing of them, that these pillars are of 
different sizes, although they may, perhaps, have been once of equal 
height; and we will not venture to hazard any conjecture with regard 
to the purpose for which they may have been erected : they cannot 
be seen from the sea-shore, or the lower road, although they are but 
a short distance from both ; for notwithstanding they are placed on a 
ridge of hills, they are so situated in the hoUow in which they stand, 
as to be indistinguishable from below. In rejecting, however, the 
“ torre sormontata da una cupola” as the boundary established in 
the time of the Ptolemies, we may, perhaps, at the same time, dis- 
pense with the columns which Signor Della Celia has imagined to 
regulate the division ; and it will not in that case be of any great 
importance whether the square pillars at Hamed Garoosh be or be 
not the same as those which the Doctor has mentioned. For our 
own part we see no building whatever in this neighbourhood, which 
answers to our idea of the tower of Euphrantas, either with regard 
to its nature or position ; and as we find other buildings to the east- 
ward of Zaffran which seem to us better calculated for boundary 
towers, we are content to take a more extended sense of the term 
employed by Strabo {(Tuny^ng) than Signor Della Celia thinks it pru- 
dent to adopt. 
We cannot take our leave of Zaffran without noticing the very 
singular and formidable appearance of the beach at this place and 
its neighbourhood ; and had we not ourselves beheld the extraordi- 
