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2,28 From Naples to
Qua pelago occurrunt medio, longeque relin-
quunt
Italiam: non sic igitur mirabere sortus
Quos Natura dedit-■■■—■ Juv. Sat. iz.
Our 'Tyrrhene Pharos, that the mid Sea
meets
With its Embrace, and leaves the Land
behind j.
A Work io wond’rous Nature ne’er de-
sign’d. Dryd. Juv.
The Seas may very properly be said to
be enclos’d (Jnclufa) between the Two
Semicircular Moles that almost surround
’em. The Colo flits, with something like
a lighted Torch in its Hand, is proba-
bly the Pharos in the Second Line. The
Two Moles that we must suppose are
join’d to the Land behind the Pharos, are
very Poetically describ’d by the
»—-Porre^taque brachia, rurfus
Qua pelago occurrunt medio, longiique re-
linquunt
Italiam> -- -----
as they retire from one another, in the
Compass they make, ’till their Two
Ends almost meet a Second time in the
jnidst of the V/aters, where the Figure
of
Qua pelago occurrunt medio, longeque relin-
quunt
Italiam: non sic igitur mirabere sortus
Quos Natura dedit-■■■—■ Juv. Sat. iz.
Our 'Tyrrhene Pharos, that the mid Sea
meets
With its Embrace, and leaves the Land
behind j.
A Work io wond’rous Nature ne’er de-
sign’d. Dryd. Juv.
The Seas may very properly be said to
be enclos’d (Jnclufa) between the Two
Semicircular Moles that almost surround
’em. The Colo flits, with something like
a lighted Torch in its Hand, is proba-
bly the Pharos in the Second Line. The
Two Moles that we must suppose are
join’d to the Land behind the Pharos, are
very Poetically describ’d by the
»—-Porre^taque brachia, rurfus
Qua pelago occurrunt medio, longiique re-
linquunt
Italiam> -- -----
as they retire from one another, in the
Compass they make, ’till their Two
Ends almost meet a Second time in the
jnidst of the V/aters, where the Figure
of