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conspicuous position, seems to make this place so very eligible 
a site for the castle in question, that we cannot refrain from point- 
ing it out to our readers as the spot of all others which we 
could most wish should prove to be really such. We know the 
TTv^yog Fjvcp^a.vrai to have been a boundary tower, since it is ex- 
pressly said by Strabo to have been the limits of Carthage and 
Gyrene under the Ptolemies; so far therefore the resemblance be- 
tween this fort and that of Strabo appears to be sufficiently complete. 
Again, amongst all the fortresses with which the Syrtis is filled, 
two only are mentioned in ancient history hi/ name, those of 
Euphrantas and Automala; audit would seem probable, from this 
circumstance (at least it appears so to us), that these castles should 
have been distinguished from others by conspicuous positions. Of 
all the positions occupied by forts between Zaffran and the point to 
which we are arrived, there is no one which can be materially distin- 
guished from another but that of Bengerwad, which we have just 
been describing ; and this is so remarkably conspicuous a position, 
from the height of the eminence and its almost insulated situation 
on the beach, that it must have been at all times an object of import- 
ance from the sea, and could not fail to have been noticed by 
Strabo in his passage along this part of the coast. It is probable that 
the position of the Philmnean Altars was not sufficiently well calcu- 
lated by nature for a boundary ; and that this circumstance, rather 
than the desire of increasing his territory in so unprofitable a district, 
induced one of the Ptolemies to remove the line of separation further 
westward to the castle of Euphrantas. In passing along the coast, 
in a westerly direction, from the sandy tract where the monuments 
