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On the interior of the wall, as we have already stated, there are a 
good many Greek inscriptions ; but we were not fortunate enough to 
find their contents quite so interesting as Dr. Della Celia has sup- 
posed they might have been, when he tells us, that “all the annals of 
the city might perhaps be found registered on its walls We ex- 
amined the whole space, however, very attentively and found only a 
collection of names, which we should scarcely have thought it worth 
while to copy had not the Doctor’s assertion made it necessary to 
shew what portion of information the inscriptions actually contained. 
They will be found, with other inscriptions from the excavated 
tombs of Teuchira, in page 386 ; and it will be seen that the names 
are chiefly Greek, and the character, for the most part, Ptolemaic ; but 
no other dates could be found, on any part of the surface mentioned 
excepting the few which appear in the plate. The inscriptions alluded 
to by Signor Della Celia, on a quadrangular building towards the 
centre of the city, consist also wholly of names and dates ; they are 
encircled by a wreath, and it will be seen by the plate that these 
names are for the most part Roman. A few names, within a similar 
enclosure, were also visible on the wall of a turret, one of which (the 
most legible) we have copied. 
The excavated tombs in the neighbourhood of Teuchira contain 
a vast number of Greek inscriptions ; but these also afford only 
names and dates, of different countries and periods ; and the most 
interesting piece of information that we were enabled to derive from 
Le mura della citta sono talmenti tapezzate di Grechi inscrizioni che forse trovansi 
qui registrati tutti gli annali di questa citta. (Viaggio da Tripoli, &c. p. 199.) 
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