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<¢ AJ] round the coast the languid air did swoon, 
Breathing like one that had a troubled dream. 
They saw the gleaming river seaward flow 
From the inner land : far off, three mountain tops, — 
Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, — 
Stood, sun-set flushed ; and, dewed with showery drops, 
Up clomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. 
The charmed sun-set lingered low adown 
In the red west : through mountain clefts, the vale 
Was seen far inland, and the yellow down 
Bordered with palm, and many a winding vale, 
And meadow, set with slender galingale.” 
Again such a climate, not unlike that of Ceylon, would be 
admirably adapted for herds of elephants. And there can be 
little doubt that it was from the forests of his native land that 
Hannibal obtained those monsters with which he crossed the Alps, 
and which spread dismay among the Roman legionaries. 
Now, too, we are in a position to understand the secret of the 
power of Carthage. She ruled over a peninsula, not unlike that of 
Italy, but more productive, and far more varied in its productions. 
Not only was she situated in the very centre of the Mediterranean, 
in a position unrivalled for commanding the commerce of that sea, 
i.e. of the then known world, but she had the superfluities of her 
own rich and extensive country to change against those of distant 
regions. Besides all this, she was mistress of this inland sea, the 
Great Lagoon of Triton, and shall we say, too, of the great 
Saharian Sea? Any way, the whole trade between central Africa 
and the Mediterranean was in her hands—this trade, still 
important, which the French at this very moment—this very year— 
are using every effort to divert to Algeria, was in ancient times 
probably more extensive still. 
When we reflect upon these things, the mystery regarding the — 
secret source of the power of Carthage vanishes, and we see nothing 
improbable in her long struggle with Rome. On the contrary, we 
begin to feel astonished, that a country of such great resources, SO 
long the mistress of more than one sea, should have finally suc- 
cumbed to the arms of Rome. We note, however, the invariable 
principle that the sons of the North have ever lorded it over the 
South, i 
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