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great extent, at a great diftance to the weft ward. 

 At their return they were very ready to fpeak of 

 their difcovery, they cmbellifhed their accounts, 

 with all the fidions familiar to travellers of all 

 countries, and at all times. When the Tyrrhe- 

 nians became the mafters of the fea, they were 

 willing to make a fettlement there; but the 

 Ckirthagenians oppofed it, fearing that their coun- 

 trymen, attraded by what was faid of this land, 

 fhould leave their country in order to fettle 

 there -, they likewife confidered this new-difco- 

 vered country as a laft refource for themfelves, 

 in cafe fome difailer Ihould have overturned their 

 empire. 



To this paflkge of Biodorus Siculus, Fa^iher 

 Laffiteau adds one of Paufanias, This writer was 

 inquiring, whether there were any fatyrs ; one 

 Eu-phtmus^ who was born in Caria^ told him, 

 that, in a voyage of his, he had been carried by 

 a ftorm to the extremities of the ocean, where 

 he had feen feveral ifles, which the failors called 

 Satyrides. The people that inhabited them were 

 of a red colour, and had tails •, the failors trem- 

 bled, and endeavoured to avoid them ; but the 

 contrary winds forced them, to come near the 

 fliore ; the favages invefted the velTel, and the 



crew. 



