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ing over the ground, and in making plans and drawings of the remains 
of antiquity which it presented, when news was brought to us from 
the Vice-Consul at Derna that H.'M. S. the Adventure had arrived 
there. As we particularly wished to communicate with Captain 
Smyth, we left Mr. Campbell in charge of the tents and set out on 
our journey to the eastward. We continued to descend for the first 
hour, tahing the route of Safsaf, where there are extensive remains 
of building, and soon came to a stony, uninteresting country, par- 
tially cultivated, and much overrun with brushwood; at noon we 
had reached a place called Tercet where we perceived the remains of 
ancient forts and those of some tombs and sarcophagi. We found 
ourselves here in the neighbourhood of an Arab encampment, and 
continuing our route over a country that appeared to have been 
cleared for the purposes of building, arrived by two o’clock at Lam- 
lada, another ancient station, occupied, like that already mentioned, 
by Arabs. The nature of the ground continued very much the 
same with that which w e had already passed over, except that it was 
more hilly ; and by five we had arrived at Goobba, where w e found 
many remains of building and a w’elcome supply of fresh water from 
a spring. We observed that the tombs here had architectural fronts 
similar to those which we have spoken of at Cyrene. As the evening 
was fast closing in, we did not stop to give these much attention, but 
proceeded on to Beit Thiarma where we pitched our tent late at night. 
At this place there is a spring of fresh water, built round, and upon 
a hill close to it the remains of an ancient fort. We had reason to 
