Antiquities 



Eliza, nephew of Thubal, grandson of Noah ; 

 hence it was called Elisabon. Eliza was in 

 some way connected with Elysium, and his 

 name survives to-day in " Champs Elysees." 

 He was also called Luso ; hence Lusitania, the 

 Roman name for Portugal ; and under his 

 third name of Phoromeo or Prometheo, he 

 invented fire. But in order to have two 

 strings to his bow, the chronicler later attributes 

 the foundation of Lisbon (Ulyssabon !) to 

 Ulysses, who married Calypso, daughter of 

 Gorgorio, King of Portugal, in b.c. ii8o. 

 Another King, Atlante, had two daughters, 

 Roma and Electra. The former founded 

 Rome (subsequently rebuilt by Romulus and 

 Remus) about 1628 b.c, 678 years after the 

 Deluge. So is history made. 



We Madeirans are dimly aware that to the 

 south of us, s6me two or three hundred miles 

 away, lies another group of islands, called the 

 Canaries, and belonging to Spain. We do not 

 think much of them, and we understand that 

 in return they are fully alive to our defects. 

 So, perhaps, Ramsgate may not admire Mar- 

 gate, and Worthing be blind to the merits of 

 Littlehampton. Officially the two groups are 



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