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Grecians evince of Ireland, at a time when they never navigated the 

 Atlantic or Northern Seas, and could have gleaned such information 

 only from the Phoenicians, then the great carriers of science and 

 merchandize to the known world. 



Homer's ambiguous notices shall not be cited at length, though 

 Strabo, Spondanus, and Goropius, consider that a great part of the 

 scenery of the Odyssey is laid in the Atlantic, and Plutarch pro^ 

 nounces an opinion as to the island of Calypso, that may surpiise and 

 interest the readers of this Essay, distinctly affirming, that it is " an 

 island five days sail" (in the navigation of these times,) " to the West 

 of Britain * "Nor can any one," says Camden, -while he applies 

 the obvious reference to Ireland, " easily conceive why they should 

 call it Ogygia, unless perhaps from its aiitiquity, for the Greeks called 

 nothing Ogygia unless what was extremely ancient. "-f But when 

 Orpheus, the first writer who definitely names Ireland, displaying all 

 the maritime knowledge of his day, in the imaginary route, which he 

 prescribes for Jason and the Argonauts, expressly mentions,;|: the 

 island of Ireland, its woody surface, its misty atmosphere, Sfc. 



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t Nee quis facile dixerit cur Ogygiam nominarint nisi forsitan ab antiquitate, nihil enim 

 nisi quod perantiquam Ogygiam dixerunt Graeci." — Camden, Hibernia. 



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