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SICILY AND MALTA. 87
great measure, filled up by the immense
quantities of rocks, sand, gravel, &c. that
were perpetually carried in by the force of
the current ?—I own I am not quite satisfied
with this solution, but at present I cannot
think of a better:—The fad:, however, is
certain, that it must have been a dreadful
object even in Virgil's time, else he never
would have made iEneas and his sseet per-
ceive its effects at so great a distance, and
immediately run out to sea to avoid it; nor
would he have made Helenus at such pains
to caution him against that dangerous
gulph, and advife him rather to make the
whole tour of Sicily than attempt to pals
it. Indeed, it is so often mentioned both
in the voyage of iEneas and Ulysses, and
always in such frightful terms, that we
cannot doubt of its having been a very ter-
rible objed*.
After
* Seneca gives this account of it in a letter to Lu-
cillus: K Scyllam saxum esTe, et quidem terrible na-
G 4 " vigantibus
great measure, filled up by the immense
quantities of rocks, sand, gravel, &c. that
were perpetually carried in by the force of
the current ?—I own I am not quite satisfied
with this solution, but at present I cannot
think of a better:—The fad:, however, is
certain, that it must have been a dreadful
object even in Virgil's time, else he never
would have made iEneas and his sseet per-
ceive its effects at so great a distance, and
immediately run out to sea to avoid it; nor
would he have made Helenus at such pains
to caution him against that dangerous
gulph, and advife him rather to make the
whole tour of Sicily than attempt to pals
it. Indeed, it is so often mentioned both
in the voyage of iEneas and Ulysses, and
always in such frightful terms, that we
cannot doubt of its having been a very ter-
rible objed*.
After
* Seneca gives this account of it in a letter to Lu-
cillus: K Scyllam saxum esTe, et quidem terrible na-
G 4 " vigantibus