[Footnote 15: An excellent collection of these remains of Grecian art has been recently sold for a considerable sum[a], by a relation of the Vice-Consul of Bengazi, who had not been many years resident there.] [Footnote a: Six thousand dollars, as we were informed.] [Footnote 16: These would however serve equally for the reception of rain water, which falls in abundance at Bengazi during the winter.] [Footnote 17: In one of these quarries a large portion of the rock, shaped into a quadrangular form, has been insulated from the rest to serve the purpose of a tomb, after the manner of those at Ptolemeta.] [Footnote 18: Two stadia is the length and breadth given by Scylax, which, taken as the _mean_ Grecian stades of Major Rennell, of about ten to a British mile, would give the measurement here stated.] [Footnote 19: Nec procul ante oppidum fluvius Lethon, lucus sacer, ubi Hesperidum Horti memorantur.—(Nat. Hist., lib. v. c. 5.) Again, in the same book, Berenice—quondam vocata Hesperidum, &c.] [Footnote 20: Βαρκιται απο αναταλων του κηπου των Ἑσπεριδων.] [Footnote 21: Βερενικη ἡ και Ἑσπεριδες.—(Ptol. Geogr.): and as Stephanus describes it, in the singular, Ἑσπερις, πολις Λιβυης, ἡ νον Βερονὶκη.] [Footnote 22: Geographie Ancienne; Murray’s account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, &c.] [Footnote 23: Gosselin and Malte Brun.] [Footnote 24: Strabo, 1.—Plutarch in Sertorio—Horat. 4. od. 8. v. 27. Epod. 16. Pliny 6—6. C. 31-2.] [Footnote 25: Signor Della Cella has supposed that the passage of Scylax refers to the _elevated_ parts of the Cyrenaica, and places his gardens of Hesperides in the mountains; but we think that a review of the passage in question, combined with the local information which we have been able to collect on the subject, will authorize us to doubt this position.] [Footnote 26: Here Lethe’s streams, from secret springs below, Rise to the light; here heavily, and slow, The silent, dull, forgetful waters flow. (Rowe’s Lucan, book ix. p. 209.) Lucan places his Lethe and Hesperian Gardens in the neighbourhood of the Lake Tritonis, in the Lesser Syrtis; but the western part of the Cyrenaica is the most approved position for both. See also Solinus on this point.] [Footnote 27: Εστι δε και λιμην Ἑσπεριδων, και ποταμος εμβαλλει Λαθων. (Lib. 17. p. 836.) Some of the Commentators read λιμνη Ἑσπεριδων, and Cellarius says on this subject—“Est et de exitu fluminis dubitatio, in quod se infundat, in mare an in lacum. Straboni est λιμην Ἑσπεριδων, in quem Lathon effluit. Vetus autem interpres iterum dissentit, et quasi λιμνη legerit, _lacus_ vertit _Hesperidum_. Videant (he adds) quibus vel regionem cognoscendi, vel inspiciendi antiquos codices, facultas est.” (Lib. iv. c. ii.)]