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MERGE TO GYRENE. 
the northern face of the mountain ; and became very shortly such a 
favourite path to every individual of our number, that each of us, in 
first coming out of the tent, turned as naturally into it as if there 
were no other. About midway between our tents and the fountain, 
the track which had been made through the high grass about us 
passed close along the scene of one of the theatres, the largest of 
the two just alluded to ; but before we proceed to the description 
of this building, and of others which engrossed our attention at 
Cyrene, we shall turn from the subject and lay before our readers the 
contents of the following chapter. 
