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certainly point it out as the more eligible position of the two, so far 
as the meaning of the term (rvH^^rjg may be concerned*. But the local 
advantages which the tower we shall hereafter mention at Benger- 
wad possesses (considered both as a boundary fortress, and as a very 
conspicuous object), would certainly induce us to give a greater lati- 
tude to the term in question, than we should, under other circum- 
stances, have ventured to allow ; and we have accordingly given this 
fortress the preference in fixing the position of the tower of Eu- 
phrantas, or rather in suggesting a position for it which there is so 
little authority for fixing with accuracy f . 
At Med met Sultan there is a sandy bay in which boats might find 
shelter with particular winds; and a lake commences here, appa- 
rently deep, which communicates with the sea in two places, and 
extends itself along the coast to the eastward. We narrowly exa- 
mined the points of communication, in expectation of finding a 
passage through them by which small vessels might have entered the 
lake ; it being probable, from its vicinity to the ruins above-men- 
tioned, that the lake might have been used as a port. But the 
nature of the beach without, which was altogether stony, running 
out into dangerous shallows impracticable for vessels of any kind, 
rendered the existence of such a passage impossible. The coast 
* It must be recollected that Strabo has described the tower of Euphrantas as conti- 
guous to, or immediately succeeding, the port of Aspis, for so we must translate 
auMsxrts, if we take it in its strict and literal sense. 
•f Among the several towers which present themselves at Medina Sultan, thei’e is 
no one which could be pointed out as more conspicuous in position than another ; and 
were the tower of Euphrantas to be fixed at this place, it would scarcely be possible 
to select one of them as its probable representative. 
