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JOURNEY FROM TRIPOLY TO BENGAZI. 
Phoenician term, like those we have instanced, may liave descended 
from that people to the Greeks, and afterwards through the latter 
to the Romans, who may have looked for the origin of it in some 
word ot the Greek language which appeared to them expressive of 
the qualities of the Gulfs, without considering that the Greeks might 
themselves have received it from others. 
