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242 A TOUR THROUGH
situation of this city:—Beroso supposes it
to have flood, where Camarina was after-
wards founded, and that this was only
a corruption of its primitive name. But
Guarneri, Carrera, and others, combat this
opinion, and affirm, that Camesena slood
near the foot of iEtna, between Aci and Cat-
tania, a'.most opposite to these three rocks
that still bear the name of the Cyclops.—In-
deed Carrera mentions an inscription that he
had seen in a ruin near Aci supposed to have
been the sepulchre of Acis, which he thinks
puts this matter out of doubt. These are
his words: " Hsec est inscriptio vetustee
cujusdam tabellse repertoe in pyramide se-
pulchri Acis, ex fragmentis vetustissimse
Chamesens:, urbis hodie Acis, conditse a
Cham, gigantum principe, etiam nuncupate
Saturno Chameseno, in promontorio Xi-
phonio, ubi adhuc hodie visuntur solo
squata antiqua vestigia, et ruina? didse
urbis et arcis in insula prope Scopulos
Cyclopum,
situation of this city:—Beroso supposes it
to have flood, where Camarina was after-
wards founded, and that this was only
a corruption of its primitive name. But
Guarneri, Carrera, and others, combat this
opinion, and affirm, that Camesena slood
near the foot of iEtna, between Aci and Cat-
tania, a'.most opposite to these three rocks
that still bear the name of the Cyclops.—In-
deed Carrera mentions an inscription that he
had seen in a ruin near Aci supposed to have
been the sepulchre of Acis, which he thinks
puts this matter out of doubt. These are
his words: " Hsec est inscriptio vetustee
cujusdam tabellse repertoe in pyramide se-
pulchri Acis, ex fragmentis vetustissimse
Chamesens:, urbis hodie Acis, conditse a
Cham, gigantum principe, etiam nuncupate
Saturno Chameseno, in promontorio Xi-
phonio, ubi adhuc hodie visuntur solo
squata antiqua vestigia, et ruina? didse
urbis et arcis in insula prope Scopulos
Cyclopum,