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vise him to run the Risque of having fix of his S e c t. Men devoured by the Monster Scylla, than to XI. venture through the PlanElœ, which no Ship ' —w~"-r ever passed but Ar go.
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That Knot of Islands lying to the North of Sicily, called now the Lipareans, were anciently named the Eolian Islands, from Eolus, who in habited them. The largest of them is surround ed with a high rocky Coast, and a great Quan tity of Allum-Jlone is found in it. ' Allum, fays p(*) c Diodorus the Sicilian, being produced in no 254 ^ ' Place of the World, but only here, and in ' the Island Melos in a very small Quantity, and f not at all sufficient to serve many Cities.' These Circumstances seem to agree with the Account given of the situation of Eolus by Homer: —— Here was th' Abode Ofpowerful Eolus, Fav'rite of the Gods Afloating -sland and around it all Ofsolid Brass there run a matchless Wall, Topt with a slippery Rock.— Odyssey. K.
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Between this Island (Lipari) and Sicily, M£ M lies what they now call the Holy I/land, as be- 2'5 M ing consecrated to Vulcan. * It is all over Rock, ' quite deserted, and full of Fire. Strabo. The I
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