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BENGAZI. 
Neapolis is, however, laid down by Ptolemy between the cities of 
Teuchira and Ptolemeta; and Mably (or Mabny) is seven or eight 
miles to the S.W. of the former of these places ; so that it will not 
correspond in position with the city which its name appears to indi- 
cate. We may at the same time observe, that in the position as- 
signed by Ptolemy to Neapolis we could perceive no remains which 
were indicative of a town; that we know of no town, described 
under another name, as occupying the site of Mably; and that 
the resemblance of that appellation to Nably, which would be the 
Arab pronunciation of Neapolis, is too close to be wholly over- 
looked. 
Between Birsis and the sea (from which we have already said it is 
distant about a mile and a half) are the remains of two towers, occu- 
pying the summit of a range of sand-hills on the beach, and which 
we were unable to visit, in consequence of the marsh which runs 
along the foot of the range, and separates it from the cultivated land. 
The country about Birsis and Mably is highly productive, wherever 
it is cultivated, and agreeably diversified with shrubs and brushwood, 
among which are a few fig-trees. The plain is here about six miles 
in breadth (from the sea to the foot of the mountains) ; and its gene- 
ral appearance, as the Arab tents were seen to rear themselves 
among the low wood and cultivated lands in which they were 
confounded by them, as we find them to be frequently by the natives of other coun- 
tries. 
The Neapolis here mentioned must not be confounded with that which has been iden- 
tified with Leptis Magna. 
