herself the night before, and brandishing his stirrups, rode off at full gallop, well pleased with the result of his long-winded visit, and anticipating all the wonderful effects of the cordial which the Doctor had so considerately bestowed upon him. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: In this neighbourhood we must look for the Macomades Syrtis of the Itinerary.] [Footnote 2: Serte (says Leo) è una città antica, edificata, come alcuni vogliono, da gli Egitti, e secondo altri dai Romani, benchè siano alcuni da oppinione che ella fosse edificata da gli Africani. Come si fu, hora è rovinata, e credesi che la distrussero i Mahumettani; ancor che Ibnu Rachik, historico, dice dai Romani; ne altro in lei si vede fuori che qualche picciolo vestigio delle mura.—(L. Afr. in Ram., 5ta parte.)] [Footnote 3: If Mahād Hassān may be taken as the _Turris Hasan_ (or Cosr Asan) of Edrisi, with which it appears to correspond, we may fairly venture, perhaps, to place Asna at Zaffrān, that place being thirty M. P. from Hasān, on the testimony of the Arab geographer, and Zaffrān thirty geographic miles from Mahād Hassān. The wells of Zaffrān are, at the same time, on the beach, as those are said to be which Edrisi has mentioned at Asna.] [Footnote 4: Medīna is the Arabic term for a city, and Medīnet Sultàn, as it is termed by the Arabs, may be translated, royal city, or city of more than ordinary distinction.] [Footnote 5: The remains of Medīnet Sultàn are on a larger scale than those of Medīna, and might on that account have been termed Sultàn; but they are rather those of an important military station than of a city, and we prefer taking Medīna as the position of Sort for this reason.] [Footnote 6: Viaggio da Tripoli, &c., p. 77, 78.] [Footnote 7: We subjoin a few of these characteristic marks, with the names of the tribe, to which they belong, attached. Some of them, it will be seen, resemble Greek letters, and when they are well cut, have a very knowing appearance. Mogharbé, Ouarghir, Wéled Sulimàn, Orfilli, Wéled Ben-Miriam, [Illustration] Wéled Abou-Saif, Gedádfa, Hemámla, Zoazi, Zoeia, [Illustration] Hassoun, Gebshia, Name forgotten. [Illustration] ] [Footnote 8: The drawing annexed will give some idea of the manner in which these blocks are disposed.] [Footnote 9: The dangerous peculiarities of the Gulfs of Syrtis are frequently noticed by the ancients; but the following passage from Sallust seems to allude more particularly to the powerful action of the surf, so conspicuous in the instance which we have just described. Nam ubi mare magnum esse, et sævire ventis cœpit, limum, Arenamq: et _saxa ingentia fluctus_ trahunt; ita facies locorum cum ventis simul mutatur. Syrtes ab tractu nominatæ.—(Bell. Jugurth., p. 78.)] [Footnote 10: The saffron of the Gharian mountains has been described by Leo Africanus as the best in the world.]