BENGAZI. 
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very different nature from those which had originally presented them- 
selves ; but although they were by no means less disagreeable, we had 
reason to rejoice in the exchange. No impediment now remained to 
obstruct our approach to, or to prevent our view of the buildings, and 
we were able to trace the plans of them with much greater ease and 
accuracy than we could on the former occasions. Having given a 
general view of the country and remains between Bengazi and Ptole- 
meta, we will now retrace our steps, and notice a few of the ruins 
which present themselves in the route with somewhat more atten- 
tion to detail. 
Of the buildings which occur in passing from Bengazi to Teuchira, 
the most conspicuous is that which we have already mentioned 
under its modern name of Gusser el Toweel (the high tower), and 
which we have supposed to be the same with that called Cafez by 
Edrisi, and placed by him at the distance of a day’s journey from 
Soluc. It is a quadrangular building of about thirty-six feet by 
twenty ; which is entered by a single door placed in the centre of 
one of its longest sides. On one side of the building is a narrow 
chamber, occupying the whole breadth of the interior, and on the 
opposite side is a low archway, (of not more than six feet in height 
from the floor, and sunk about four feet below it,) which is now 
almost filled up with rubbish, and of which, we must confess, we were 
unable to discover the use. The intervening space is left vacant, 
forming a single room of something more than seventeen feet in 
length, and occupying, like the narrow chamber which communicates 
with it, the whole breadth of the inner part of the building. 
