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to such employment should he find himself stationed for years in 
their neighbourhood. 
We never, ourselves, passed our time more agreeably, than in 
collecting the details which we have been able to procure of them ; 
and shall never forget the sensations of delight — we will not use a 
less impressive term — which we experienced on our first introduction 
to these beautiful examples of Grecian art. 
The position of the tombs, as well as that of the city, has been 
already described, and too much can scarcely be said in its praise ; 
^ve wish that our limits would allow us to give more of the archi- 
tectural details of the former than can be collected from the general 
view of them ; but we shall probably avail ourselves of some other 
opportunity of submitting a few examples to public inspection, and 
can only at present refer for some idea of them to the view which 
we have just alluded to. To have lived in the flourishing times of 
Gyrene would indeed have been a source of no trivial enjoyment ; 
and we are ashamed to say how often we have envied those who 
beheld its numerous buildings in a state of perfection, and 
occupied, in their former cultivated state, the beautiful spots on 
which they stand. 
We must not, however, take our leave of the city, without advert- 
ing once more to the excavated channel that has been formed for the 
water of the principal fountain, to which we have formerly alluded. 
We had been so much occupied in walking over the ruins, and col- 
lecting the details of Gyrene and Apollonia, that it was only the day 
before we set out on our return to Bengazi, that we were able to 
