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SICILY AND MALTA. 57
wear away the bank on each side, and en-
large the bed of the water.
The vessels in this passage were obliged
to go as near as possible to the coast of Ca-
labria, in order to avoid the suclion occa-
sioned by the whirling of the waters in
this vortex; by which means when they
came to the narrower! and most rapid part
of the Straits, betwixt Cape Pelorus and
Scylla, they were in great danger of being
carried upon that rock. From whence the
proverb, still applied to those, who in at-
tempting to avoid one evil fall into another,
" Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens evirare Caribdem."
There is a fine fountain of white marble
on the key, representing Neptune holding
Scylla and Charybdis chained, under the
emblematical figures of two sea-monsters,
as represented by the poets.
The little neck of land, forming the
harbour of Messina, is slrongly fortified.
The
wear away the bank on each side, and en-
large the bed of the water.
The vessels in this passage were obliged
to go as near as possible to the coast of Ca-
labria, in order to avoid the suclion occa-
sioned by the whirling of the waters in
this vortex; by which means when they
came to the narrower! and most rapid part
of the Straits, betwixt Cape Pelorus and
Scylla, they were in great danger of being
carried upon that rock. From whence the
proverb, still applied to those, who in at-
tempting to avoid one evil fall into another,
" Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens evirare Caribdem."
There is a fine fountain of white marble
on the key, representing Neptune holding
Scylla and Charybdis chained, under the
emblematical figures of two sea-monsters,
as represented by the poets.
The little neck of land, forming the
harbour of Messina, is slrongly fortified.
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