ON THE ICTIS OF DIODORUS SICULUS. 321 
the smallest in the cluster, its whole surface being 
not more than an acre. On this subject, the fol- 
lowing extract, from Borlase’s ‘‘ Observations on 
the ancient and present state of the islands of 
Scilly,”* will be found deserving of particular 
attention. The writer has just been describing 
a certain eminence which he visited. He then 
goes on to say, “From this hill I observed the 
Guél Hill of Brehar, and the isle of Guél, stretch 
away towards the little isle of Scilly, and with it 
making a curve, of which Scilly is the headland ; 
and from the furthermost hill of Brehar a promon- 
tory shoots, at the extreme point of which a vast 
rocky turret, called the castle of Brehar, on every 
side many rocks show themselves above water, 
and intimate their former connexion with Bre- 
har, and their being reduced to their present 
nakedness by the fury of the ocean. From this 
disposition, therefore, of the rocks and islets on 
this side, we may answer a question which would 
otherwise be extremely difficult to solve, viz :— 
How came all these islands to have their general 
name from so small and inconsiderable a spot as 
the Isle of Scilly, whose cliffs hardly anything 
but birds can mount, and whose barrenness would 
* Pp. 57—59. 
