LIST OF PLATES.
, Chapter 3 Solitary Palm-Tree at Arar, remarkable as being the only Tree in «re Greater Syrtis VI.
2. Formidable Appearance of the Coast at Zaffran . •
3. Remains o f an Ancient Bridge at Ptolemeta • • i6 '
4. Remains of an Ancient Mausoleum at Ptolemeta • • . ^
5. Remains of an Ionic Buiiding at Ptolemeta (Vignette) ib.
6. Remains of an early Christian Church at Ptolemeta , ¡ g f r j
7. Singular Position of TVo Inhabited Caves in the Neighbourhood of Apolloma . XVI .
8. Position of the Amphitheatre, the Fountain of Apollo, and some other Remams ^
9 ElevadoTof the Internal Façade of an Excavated Tomb at Cyrene . •
y. üiievauuu M u B j Mptones of One of the Excavated
10. Suite of Allegorical Figures painted on the Metopes o
Tombs at Cyrene . ■ ■ - ' * qj,
11 Partial View of the Tombs on the Heights of Cyrene . . • •
12. Architectural Front of One of the Doric excavated Tombs at Cyrene . •
13. Entrance to the Fountain of Apollo at Cyrene (Vignette) .
l i s t o f c h a r t s a n d p l a n s .
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Gpneral Chart of the Route . * ,
Chart, showing the Difference between the Coast Dine of former Charts, and that j g ^
tain fid by the Expedition • *
Plan of the Port and Neighbourhood of Bengasi - • • | | |
P la n of the City ofTeuchira . . • ‘
Plan of the City of Ptolemeta - • , x y
P la n o f the City and Environs ¿f Cyrene . • a
Plan of the City, on a larger Scale . XVII
Plan of the Town of Dema and of the Port of Zafiran • • a
Plan of the Port and City of Apollonia
IN T R O D U C T IO N .
I n offering to the Public an account of the mission, the proceedings
of which will form the subject of the present Narrative, it may be
proper to state briefly the circumstances which gave rise to it, and
the objects to which its inquiries were chiefly directed.
When Captain Smyth visited the Northern Coast of Africa, in the
year 1817, he had many opportunities (during the course of his
Survey) of obtaining information connected With the state of the
country and the points most deserving of notiee which it presented.
Thé exertions of this active and intelligent officer procured at
Lebida the matter for the only plan which wë have of that city and
its antiquities, while his journey to Gthirza made us acquainted with
the actual nature of those remains, so important in Arab estimation,
the account of which is given at the latter part of our narrative *.
Captain Smyth had proposed to extend his journey eastward ; for
the friendly disposition of the Bashaw of Tripoly had been diligently
cultivated by himself and Colonel Warrington,* His Majesty’s Consul
general at the Eegency, and the whole tract of country between
Tripoly and Derna was open to the researches of the English. Circumstances,
however, prevented him from doing so, and on returning
* The plan here alluded to o f the City of Lebida was obligingly placed a t our disposal
by the author, and we wished to have'had it engraved for the work ; but, in consequence
of being obliged to limit our number o f plates to much fewer than we had originally
anticipated, this plan, w ith some others of our own, have been omitted.
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