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SICILY. AND MALTA. 3or
of a river.—The poetical fictions concern-
ing it are too "well known to require that I
lhould enumerate ..them. Many of the
people here believe to this day, that it is
the identical river Arethusa, that sinks under
ground near Olympia in Greece, and con-
tinuing its course for five or six hundred
miles below the ocean, rises again in this
spot. I ...
It is truly astonishing that such a story as
this lhould have gained such credit amongst
the ancients, for it is not only-their poets,
but natural historians and philosophers too,
that take notice of it. Pliny mentions it
more than once ; and there are few or none
of the Latin poets that it has escaped.
-*r!< K*»*M aVls 'tl'sit b I
This strange belief has been communi-
cated to the Sicilian authors, and, what is
amazing, there is hardly any of them that
doubts of it.—Pomponius Mela, Pausanias,
Masia, and Fazzcllo, are all of the same
send-
of a river.—The poetical fictions concern-
ing it are too "well known to require that I
lhould enumerate ..them. Many of the
people here believe to this day, that it is
the identical river Arethusa, that sinks under
ground near Olympia in Greece, and con-
tinuing its course for five or six hundred
miles below the ocean, rises again in this
spot. I ...
It is truly astonishing that such a story as
this lhould have gained such credit amongst
the ancients, for it is not only-their poets,
but natural historians and philosophers too,
that take notice of it. Pliny mentions it
more than once ; and there are few or none
of the Latin poets that it has escaped.
-*r!< K*»*M aVls 'tl'sit b I
This strange belief has been communi-
cated to the Sicilian authors, and, what is
amazing, there is hardly any of them that
doubts of it.—Pomponius Mela, Pausanias,
Masia, and Fazzcllo, are all of the same
send-