APPENDIX. xiii 
At Bengazi, ships will find a plentiful supply of fresh beef, 
mutton and poultry, vegetables, fruit, good water, and sometimes 
wood ; but the latter is very small. 
From Bengazi to Bomba, a chain of mountains, from eight hun- 
dred to eleven hundred feet in height, extend along the coast in a 
diagonal direction with the shore, being distant from Bengazi 
thirteen and a half miles, from Tochra five, Ptolemeta one and a half, 
and coming close down to the sea in the neighbourhood of Ras Sem. 
From a rocky point, four and a half miles north-east of Bengazi, the 
coast runs low and sandy to, or a little way beyond, having at the 
back a woody country extending to the mountains. 
The ruins of Tochra stand upon a small rising ground, which 
terminates toward the sea in a cliff ; the landing here is bad, except 
in very smooth water, and there is nothing but water to be procured. 
Between Tochra and Ptolemeta, the woody country approaches the 
beach. 
Ptolemeta may be distinguished by a large square tomb near the 
beach, and by the ruins upon the hills to the eastward of it. A mile 
from the tomb (to the eastward) will be found a small bay, offering 
convenient landing for boats, except with the wind on shore. It is 
immediately round a rocky promontory, the first that occurs after 
the tomb. There are no supplies to be had at Ptolemeta, and no water 
except, occasionally, in some ancient cisterns. 
Mersa Susa Hammam, or Apollonia, is situated in the bight of a 
large bay, formed by Ras El Hilal, and a cape, designated in the 
charts as Cape Ras Sem. The ruins of the ancient town stand upon 
a rising ground close to the beach, and may be easily distinguished 
from the sea. 
Though the Arabs have dignified the small indentation of coast 
that here occurs, with the title of Mersa, and we have the authority 
of the ancients for its being used as a port formerly, yet it cannot with 
any propriety be recommended as such for vessels of the present 
day; nevertheless, boats, or perhaps small craft, may find some 
shelter behind the islets 'that lie off the town. 
Shipping off this coast will see two distinct ranges of mountains, 
Supplies. 
Bengazi toward 
Bomba. 
Tochra, or 
Teuchira. 
Ptolemeta, or 
Dolmaita. 
Mersa Susa, or 
Apollonia. 
Ranges of moun- 
tains. 
