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SICILY AND MALTA. 41
miles dislant from the entry of the Straits,
we heard the roaring of the current, like
the noise of some large impetuous river
confined between narrow banks. This in-
creased in proportion as we advanced, till
We saw the water in many places raised to
a considerable height, and forming large
eddies or whirlpools. The sea in every
other place was as smooth as glass. Our
old pilot told us, that he had often seen
ships caught in these eddies, and whirled
about with great rapidity, without obeying
the helm in the smallest degree. When
the weather is calm, there is little danger;
but when the waves meet with this violent
current, it makes a dreadful sea. He says,
there were five ships wrecked in this spot
last winter. We observed that the current
set exaclly for the rock of Scylla, and
would infallibly have carried any thing
thrown into it against that point; so that
it was not without reason the ancients have
painted it as an objed of such terror. It
is
miles dislant from the entry of the Straits,
we heard the roaring of the current, like
the noise of some large impetuous river
confined between narrow banks. This in-
creased in proportion as we advanced, till
We saw the water in many places raised to
a considerable height, and forming large
eddies or whirlpools. The sea in every
other place was as smooth as glass. Our
old pilot told us, that he had often seen
ships caught in these eddies, and whirled
about with great rapidity, without obeying
the helm in the smallest degree. When
the weather is calm, there is little danger;
but when the waves meet with this violent
current, it makes a dreadful sea. He says,
there were five ships wrecked in this spot
last winter. We observed that the current
set exaclly for the rock of Scylla, and
would infallibly have carried any thing
thrown into it against that point; so that
it was not without reason the ancients have
painted it as an objed of such terror. It
is