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** that you are enabled to fortify, at once, both 

 " your body and your foul. It was by fuch means 

 " that Hercules acquired that courage, and that 

 " invincible ftrength, which have raifed his glory 

 " to the ftars." 



I followed, then, as far as I was able, the advice 

 of my friend, notwithftanding my extreme youth. 

 I exerted myfelf in raifing the unwieldy fail-yards, 

 and in managing the fails. But the lead raillery 

 from my companions, who ridiculed my inexpc 

 rience, entirely difconcerted me. It would have 

 been eafier for me to contend with the boifteroiis 

 elements than with the contempt of men : fuch 

 fenlibility to the opinions of others had my educa- 

 tion infpired. 



We pafTed the ftrait which feparates Africa from 

 Europe, and faw, on the right and on the kft, the 

 two mountains, Calpe and Abila, which fortify the 

 entrance. Our Phenician failors did not fail to 

 inform us, that their Nation was the firft of all 

 thofe of the Earth, which had dared to penetrate 

 into the vaft Ocean, and coaft along it's Ibores, 

 even as far as the Frozen Zone. They placed 

 their own reputation far above that of Hercules, 

 who ereded, as they faid, two pillars at this paf- 

 fage, with theinfcription. Beyond this you can- 

 not PASS, as if the termination of his labours 



were 



