As it was, we felt heartily glad when our steady and heavy Tripolitan tent being at length pitched, we were able to stretch ourselves without being covered with sand. All the people were greatly fatigued, and required repose more than anything else. Out of regard to the men as well as to the camels, we were obliged to stay here the following day, though the place was comfortless in the extreme, and did not offer the smallest bit of shade. The accompanying sketch, which I made this day of the place, with the slope of the Hammáda in the background, will give but a faint idea of its desolate character. Scarcely any of our places of encampment on the whole journey seemed to me so bad and cheerless as this. If I had had an animal to mount, I would have gone on to a cluster of three or four date-trees, which are said to be at the distance of about three miles west from the well, and belong to the people of Zintán, to enjoy a little shade; but our camels were too much distressed. [Footnote 38: A copy of my drawing of this interesting monument, of its ground-plan, and of the inscription, was sent by me to Dr. Patrick Colquhoun in May, 1850; and a short and learned treatise on it was published by John Hogg, Esq., in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, vol. iv. new series.] [Footnote 39: Capt. Lyon’s Travels, p. 67.] [Footnote 40: This might represent the subjugated nation or prince.] [Footnote 41: Among these the following names can be made out with certainty, leaving only the short vowels, which are not expressed, in some doubt. Umaghmagh~d~úmer or úmaghem ghedúmer, Múthemaghe~m~. besmeter. me~n~menýr. The letters underlined are not certain. It is scarcely necessary to say that these inscriptions were made upon the building at a later period, and that Mr. Hogg was wrong when, taking them for Punic, and thinking that I had overlooked “the most remarkable portions of this remain,” he believed them to be taken from some older Punic building.] [Footnote 42: This is a very probable conjecture of Mr. Hogg.] [Footnote 43: Although the name ANTONINO has suffered a little in the inscription, yet copying it, as I did, without any prejudice, I found sufficient traces of the letters composing this name; and I hardly think that I have been mistaken. If so, it is a curious and remarkable instance of this title, which Severus Alexander is said to have refused. See Gibbon, vol. i. p. 289.] [Footnote 44: See note, p. 128.] [Footnote 45: Plinius H. N. l. v. c. 5.: “Ad Garamantas iter inexplicabile adhuc fuit. Proximo bello, quod cum Œensibus Romani gessere auspiciis Vespasiani Imperatoris, compendium viæ quatridui deprehensum est. Hoc iter vocatur _Præter caput saxi_.”] [Footnote 46: It is scarcely necessary to mention that Mr. J. Hogg has been greatly mistaken in identifying this place with Ghirza, which lies at a great distance.] [Footnote 47: Vol. i. p. 40.] [Footnote 48: Journal Asiatique, 1843, série iv. tom. i. p. 189.]