There is every probability that entire mummies might be discovered in the catacombs at a greater distance to _westward_ of Siwah. I was credibly informed, that besides the open catacombs on the mountains, there are others under ground, and the entrance of which is to be found at no great depth; and that _Biut-el-Nazari_, (houses of Christians, synonymous here to Infidels,) exist on both sides of a long subterraneous passage, forming a communication, between two catacomb-mountains. The catacombs met with on _Gibel-el-belled_, being the hill on which _Siwah_ is built, are small, and consist of a little antichamber, leading generally to two caverns where the mummies were deposited. Of these the two most remarkable are two large and high caverns on the north side; the one is twenty, the other sixteen feet square, and both are open to the north. There are likewise two other caverns, of similar dimensions, but not so lofty, to be seen westward of _Siwah_, and leading to _Augila_; their entrance is low and narrow, and the two excavations are so near, that the partition, as appears from a small perforation, is only ten inches thick. Quitting the subject of antiquities in the territory of Siwah, I have only to add, that in the nearest plain west of the town, there are other massive remains of some building, but which bear no token or note of remote antiquity, such as may be attributed to the ruins I first described. SECTION VI. _Departure from Siwah.—Journey to Schiacha, and Danger which the Traveller there incurred._