So also Stephanus; Βαρκη, πολις Λιβυης, ἡτις και Πτολεμαις.
[4]Εκ δε λιμενος της Κυρηνης μεχρι λιμενος του κατα Βαρκην σταδια φʹ, ἡ δε πολις ἡ Βαρκεων απο θαλασσης απεχει σταδια ρʹ. (Perip. p. 109.)
[5](لاقطران) el kidrān, (goudron).
[6]The Arab word is ضطابلس Bintàblis.
[7]Yazouri was Grand Khadi and governor of Egypt and Barca, in the reign of the Caliph Mostanser-Billah. He was stripped of these posts, and of that of Vizier, which he also held, in the year 450.
[8]This author relates, that he himself was credibly informed, that on one single day (a Friday) the Imam at Alexandria had read the funeral service over seven hundred people!—and that, in the space of a month, the same property had passed to fourteen persons who inherited it in succession.
POSITION and Plan of CYRENE.
BY Captn. F. W. Beechey R.N.
| J. & C. Walker Sculpt. | Published as the act directs, April 1827, by J. Murray, Albemarle St. London. |