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Seite 11 - Rainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been clothed with terrors by the writers of antiquity. To the undecked boats of the Rhegians, Locrians, Zancleans, and Greeks, it must have been formidable ; for, even in the present day, small craft are sometimes endangered by it, and I have seen several men-of-war, and even a seventy four gun ship, whirled round on its surface ; but, by using due caution, there...
Seite 10 - Ulysses, with fancying it the scourge of seamen, and, that in a gale its caverns " roar like dogs ;" but I, as a sailor, never perceived any difference between the effect of the surges here, and on any other coast, yet I have frequently watched it closely in bad weather. It is now, as I presume it ever was, a common rock, of bold approach, a little worn at its base, and surmounted by a castle, with a sandy bay on each side.
Seite 11 - Outside the tongue of land, or Braccio di St. Kainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been cluthed with terrors by the writers of antiquity.
Seite 12 - It appears to be an agitated water, of from seventy to ninety fathoms in depth, circling in quick eddies. It is owing probably to the meeting of the harbour and lateral currents with the main one, the latter being forced over in this direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene and Sicilian seas, and he is the only writer of remote antiquity I remember to have read, who has assigned this...
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| Titel | The History of Sicily to the Athenian War: With Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar |
| Autor/in | William Watkiss Lloyd |
| Verlag | J. Murray, 1872 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 19. Sept. 2007 |
| Länge | 396 Seiten |
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