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[287]The Cyrenaica comprised the Greek cities of Barca, Teuchira, Hesperis and Apollonia, the port of Cyrene. Under the Ptolemies, Hesperis became Berenice, Teuchira was called Arsinoe, and Barca was entirely eclipsed by its port, which was raised into a city by the name of Ptolemais. The country was at that time called the Pentapolis, from its five cities above mentioned.
[288]See the rumour regarding this petrified city, reported by Peyssonnel. Peyss., ap. Dur. de la Malle, i. p. 52.
[289]A species of Tarantula.
[290]Anciently Teuchira, subsequently Arsinoe, one of the five cities which composed the Pentapolis. Pacho (1827) states that the town was surrounded by a wall, forming an irregular enclosure of about two miles in circumference, flanked with towers at its angles, probably the fortifications built by Justinian. M. della Cella, in 1817, described two ruins, one with an inscription encircled by a garland of laurels, and the other evidently a temple to Bacchus. See also Beechey, p. 354, et seq., where is a chart of Teuchira.
[291]Consult Beechey, chap. xii.
[292]See Beechey, p. 257, who has also given an illustration of it.
[293]Illegible in original.
[294]No other sketch but that before mentioned exists in the Kinnaird collection.
[295]This inscription has since been removed in a very mutilated condition to Paris.
[296]Pacho, Relation d’un Voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaique, &c., pendant 1824-25. Paris, 1857; p. 178, Pl. lxviii.; lix., fig. 1; lxxii.
[297]Hamilton’s Wanderings in North Africa, p. 144.