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86 A TOUR THROUGH
traordinary motion there, and mips and
boats seemed to pass it with ease. When we
compare this its present state, with the for-
midable description of so many antient au-
thors, poets, historians, and philosophers,
it appears indeed not improbable that this
issand has been torn from the continent by
some violent convulsion, and that near to
this spot, huge caverns have been opened,
which, drinking in the waters in one course
of the current, and throwing them out in
the other, may perhaps in some measure
account for the phsenomena of Charybdis,
—I find it is described both by Homer and
Virgil, as alternatively swallowing up, and
throwing out every object that approached
it*. Now, is it not probable, that these
caverns in process of time have been, in a
* Dextrum Pcylla latus, lasvum implacata Charybdis
Obsidet, atque imo barathr: ter gurgice vailos
Sorbet in abruptum ssuctus, rursusque sub auras
Erigit ahernos, et sidera verbcrat unda.
great
traordinary motion there, and mips and
boats seemed to pass it with ease. When we
compare this its present state, with the for-
midable description of so many antient au-
thors, poets, historians, and philosophers,
it appears indeed not improbable that this
issand has been torn from the continent by
some violent convulsion, and that near to
this spot, huge caverns have been opened,
which, drinking in the waters in one course
of the current, and throwing them out in
the other, may perhaps in some measure
account for the phsenomena of Charybdis,
—I find it is described both by Homer and
Virgil, as alternatively swallowing up, and
throwing out every object that approached
it*. Now, is it not probable, that these
caverns in process of time have been, in a
* Dextrum Pcylla latus, lasvum implacata Charybdis
Obsidet, atque imo barathr: ter gurgice vailos
Sorbet in abruptum ssuctus, rursusque sub auras
Erigit ahernos, et sidera verbcrat unda.
great