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BENGAZI. 
A window has been formed in part of the wall for the purpose 
of giving light to an upper story, which, together with the window 
itself, appears to have made no part of the original plan; an 
addition has also been made to the exterior, (marked by shading hnes 
in the ground-plan,) and forming, with what has been already 
described, a square of something less than fifty feet. There is no 
appear£ince of any door in this additional wall, which has been very 
strongly built, and it completely prevents aU access from without to 
the door of the original building. The object of this has no doubt 
been security, and the whole structure appears to have been intended 
as a station for troops and was probably one of the fortresses 
repaired by Justinian. Its height may be about five-and-twenty feet, 
(we mean the height of the original building, for the added part 
does not seem to have been ever raised to half that elevation), and it 
IS still surmounted by a cornice part of which is, however, cut away. 
There are several other strong towers at no great distance from 
Gusser el Toweel, nearer to the foot of the mountains, and a commu- 
nication appears to have been kept up all the way from Bengazi to 
Ptolemeta. There are also several well-built and spacious arched 
cisterns, and other structures partly built and partly excavated, in 
this tract of country ; as also many subterranean storehouses for 
gram ; and a month or two might certainly be spent with great ad- 
vantage m examining the space between the sea and the mountains, 
from Bengazi to Birsis and Teuchira. 
