[16]These would however serve equally for the reception of rain water, which falls in abundance at Bengazi during the winter.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[20]Βαρκιται απο αναταλων του κηπου των Ἑσπεριδων.
[21]Βερενικη ἡ και Ἑσπεριδες.—(Ptol. Geogr.): and as Stephanus describes it, in the singular, Ἑσπερις, πολις Λιβυης, ἡ νον Βερονὶκη.
[22]Geographie Ancienne; Murray’s account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, &c.
[23]Gosselin and Malte Brun.
[24]Strabo, 1.—Plutarch in Sertorio—Horat. 4. od. 8. v. 27. Epod. 16. Pliny 6—6. C. 31-2.
[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.