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Lancerote, with a volcano, la Corona, of 300 toises elevation (Leop. v. Buch, 

 Canarische Inseln, S. 104), and Fortaventura, are much nearer to the maiu- 

 *and than Teneriffe : the distance of the first-named island being 1 15'. and 

 that of the second! 2'. 



( 177 ) p. 132. Ross only mentions this assertion as a report. (Hellenika, 

 Bd. i. S. 11.) May the supposed observation have rested on a mere illusion ? 

 If we take the elevation of Etna above the sea at 1704 toises (lat. 37 45'. 

 long, from Paris 12 41'), and that of the place of observation, on the 

 Taygetos (the Elias Mountain), at 1236 toises (lat. 36 57', long, from Paris 

 20 10, and the distance between the two at 352 geographical miles, we have 

 for the point above Etna, receiving light from it, and being visible on 

 Taygetos (jr for the cloud perpendicularly above the luminous column of 

 smoke, and reflecting its light), an elevation of 7612 toises, or 4 times 

 greater than that of Etna. But if, as my friend Professor Encke has re- 

 marked, we might assume the reflecting surface to be that of a cloud placed 

 nearly intermediately between Etna and Taygetos, then its height above the 

 sea would only require to be 286 toises. 



( 178 ) p. 133. Strabo, lib. xvi. p. 767, Casaub. According to Polybius, 

 both the Euxine and the Adriatic could be seen from the Aimon mountains ; 

 Strabo was already aware of the inadmissibility of such a supposition (lib. vii. 

 p. 313.) Compare Seymnus, p. 93. 



( 179 ) p. 133. On the synonymes of Ophir, see my Examen Grit, de 1'Hist. 

 de la Geographic, t. ii. p. 42. Ptolemy, in lib. vi. cap. 7, p. 156, speaks of a 

 Sapphara, metropolis of Arabia; and in lib. vii. cap. 1, p. 168, of Supara, in 

 the Gulf of Camboya (Barigazenus sinus, according to Hesychius), " a country 

 rich in gold" ! Supara signifies in Indian, fair shore (Schonufer.) (Lassen, 

 Diss. de Tapobrane, p. 18, indische Altersthumkunde, Bd. i. S. 107 ; Keil, 

 Professor in Dorpat, iiber die Hiram- Salomonische Schiflahrt nach Ophir 

 und Tarsis, S. 4045.) 



( 18 ) p. 133. "Whether ships of Tarshish mean ocean ships, or whether, 

 as Michaelis contends, they have their name from the Phrenician Tarsus, in 

 Cilicia? see Keil, S. 7, 1522, and 7184. 



( 181 ) p. 133. Gesenius, Thesaurus Linguae Hebr. t. i. p. 141 ; and the 

 same in the Encycl. of Ersch and Gruber, Sect. III. Th. iv. S. 401 ; Lassen, 

 ind. Alterthumskunde, Bd. i. S. 538 ; Reinaud, Relation des Voyages faits par 

 les Arabes dans 1'Inde et en Chine, t. i. 1845, p. xxviii. The learned Quatre- 

 mere, who, in a very recently published treatise (Mem. de 1'Acad. des In 

 eriptions, t. xv. pt. 2, 1845 . 349402), again considers, with Heeren, 



