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fiiis Periplus * of Hanno is genuine ; and it is a great plea- 

 fure again to endeavour to obviate any doubt concerning 

 the authenticity of the work in this fecond paiTage, as I 

 have before done in another. 



In countries, fuch as thofe that we have been now de^ 

 fcribing, and fuch as- Hanno was then failing by, when he 

 made the remark, there is no twilight. The liars, in their 

 full brightness, are in poueilion of the whole heavens, 

 when in an inftant the fun appears without a harbinger, 

 and they all difappear together. We fhall fay, at fun-rifing 

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

 noon it is from ioo°to 11 5*; an univerfal relaxation, a kind 

 of irreliftible languor and averlion to all action takes pof- 

 feffion of both man and beaft ; the appetite fails, and fleep 

 and quiet are the only things tire mind is capable of deli- 

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

 to the fliade, and to the neighbourhood of running ftreams, 

 or deep ftagnant pools, and there, avoiding the effects of 

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

 fame motive, the wild bealt 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 llroll abroad to feed ; they 

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

 their fhepherds. 



But no fooner does the fun {et y than a cold night in- 

 ftantly fucceeds a burning day; the appetite immediately 

 returns; the cattle fpread themselves abroad to feed, and 



pafs 



* Dodfwell*s diffemtioa of Hanno's Periplus— Momefquieu^ torn. I. lib. zt. cap. n. 



