THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. jCjl 



this Periplus * of, Hanno is genuine ; and ic is a great plea-.- 

 £ure again to endeavour to obviate any doubt concerning: 

 the authenticity of the work in this fccond pallhge, as I 

 have before done in another. 



In countries, fuch as thbfe that we have been now dc-? 

 fcribing, and fuch as Hanno was then faiUng by, when he 

 made the remark, there is no twihght. The fbars, in theiir 

 full brightnels, are in poiTeilion of the whole heavens, 

 when in. an inflant the fun. appears without a harbinger, 

 and they all difappear together. We lliall fay,.at;fun-rifmg 

 the thermometer is from 48" to 60° ; at 3 o'clock in the after- 

 noon it is from 100° to 115"; an univerfal relaxation, a kind 

 of irrefillible languor and averfion to all aftion takes pof* 

 feflioii^of both man 'and. heafl ; the appetite fails, and fleep 

 and quiet are the only things the mind is capable of deii-. 

 ring,,or the body of enduring: cattle, birds, and .beafts all flock 

 to the fliade, and to the neighbourhood of running ftream_&, 

 or deep flagnant pools, and there, avoiding the eifet^s of 

 the fcorching fun, pant in quiet- and inaction. From the 

 fame motive, the wild beaft ftirs not from his cave ; and for 

 this, too, he has an additional reafon, becaufe the cattle he 

 depends upon for his prey do not ftroll abroad to feed ; they 

 are afleep and in fafety, for with them are their dogs and 

 their fhepherds. 



But no fooner does the fun fet, tlian a cold ~ night in? 

 ftantly fucceeds a burning day; the appetite immediately 

 returns; the cattle fpre ad themfelves abroad to feed, and 



pafs 



•Dodfwell's diflertation of Hanao's Periclus— Montefcjuku, torn. I, lib. 2i. cap. ii. - 



