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BENGAZI. 
Traces of Christianity are still visible in the remains of a 
a handsome church in this city, which may perhaps be attributed 
to the piety or the munificence of Justinian, so conspicuously 
displayed in similar structures throughout his extensive dominions. 
The account which Bruce has given us of Ptolemeta proves evi- 
dently that he confounded it with Teuchira, since he tells us 
of its walls, “ which he found entire, on which were a prodigious 
number of Greek inscriptions whereas there are no remains of 
walls at Ptolemeta, (with the exception of a noble gateway by 
which those which once existed were connected,) that are more 
than a foot above the ground ; and we have already stated, that 
the walls of Teuchira correspond with Bruce’s description. The 
same writer adds that he found nothing at Arsinoe, or at Barca, and 
we are somewhat at a loss to know what places he intends to point 
out as the spots which he considers to have been occupied by the 
two cities mentioned. We have given the details which we were 
enabled to collect of Teuchira at the end of the present chapter, 
and shall therefore abstain from further mention of it here, and pro- 
ceed with the other parts of our narrative. 
We may, however, remark that it abounds in wells of excellent 
water, which are reserved by the Arabs for their summer con- 
sumption, and only resorted to when the more inland supplies 
. are exhausted; at other times Teuchira (we were informed) is 
uninhabited. Many of the excavated tombs, which we have men- 
tioned above, are occupied as dwelling-houses by the Arabs during 
their summer visits to this part of the coast ; and from the circum- 
