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ties, and we know of no name which can he properly bestowed 
upon it. 
We should be the more inclined to consider the fortifications of 
Eraiga as those which are mentioned at Automala, from the circum- 
stance of their vicinity to other remains, which answer extremely 
well to those of the maritime stationes laid down in the map of 
Ptolemy. In this map, the stations are placed a little to the 
northward of Automala, with no other place intervening ; and the 
position of Eraiga with regard to Tabilba, which answers precisely 
to the maritimce stationes, is exactly that assigned to Automala in 
the order here adopted by Ptolemy. 
Sachreen may undoubtedly be considered as the extremity of the 
gulf in its present state ; but a place which was only twenty miles 
distant from it might well have been said to be situated in this recess, 
by a person who viewed it from the sea, particularly when the out- 
line of this part of the gulf is considered at the same time. Eraiga, 
from the sea, must have, besides, been at all times very conspicuous ; 
and we can scarcely imagine that the fort which stands so high above 
the beach there would have been unnoticed by Strabo, had it existed 
in his time, which we may suppose with probability that it did. 
He has, however, noticed only Automala ; and it remains to be con- 
sidered how fiir we are really authorized in assuming these places 
as the same, upon the data already before the reader *. 
* It may be added, that the forts in the neighbourhood of Braiga and Tabilba, erected 
amoncr the hills a little inland, are very interesting, and much more perfect than usual. 
A fortnight or three weeks might be very profitably and agreeably spent in making 
out the interior ground-plans of these buildings. 
