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and Cyrene. It was at Charax that the Carthaginians exchanged their 
wine for the silphium, and the hquor which was extracted from it, 
(so we translate the passage, reversing the order)* ; neither of which, 
from the value attached to these commodities, were allowed to be 
exported from the Cyrenaica by individuals ; and were consequently 
disposed of with great caution and secrecy to the traders of Carthage 
who assembled at Charax to treat for them. 
As the identity of the fortress at Bengerwad with the tower of 
Euphrantas may scarcely, perhaps, be considered as decidedly esta- 
bhshed ; it will probably here appear strange that we shoidd point 
out the vicinity of the ruins above mentioned to Bengerwad as one 
of the reasons why we imagine them to be those of Charax. 
But whether the tower of Euphrantas be placed at Bengerwad or 
not, we cannot consider that place as any other than a boundary ; 
and as Charax was evidently a frontier-towm, and must be looked for 
somewhere in this neighbourhood, we may assume the vicinity of the 
remains in question to the only spot which we have met with which 
may decidedly be termed a boundary, as a reason why they are proba- 
bly those of Charax. This once allowed, it will be the more readily 
admitted that the ruin at Bengerwad is very likely to be that of the 
tower of Euphrantas ; for Charax, as before stated, is the first place 
which is mentioned by Strabo after that fortress, and may therefore 
be identified with the first town to be met with in passing from the 
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p. 688. 
