VOYAGE FROM ODESSA, 
Hebrides ; where the number of Solan geese, and 
of other birds, cause the rocks and islands to 
appear as if they were capped with snow. All 
the superstitions respecting Leuce seem to 
have had their origin in its importance as a 
land-mark ; the coast near the Mouths of the 
Danube being so low, that the mariners arc 
unable to discern it, even when close in with 
the shore; and the island itself being often 
obscured by the hazy atmosphere of the Black 
Sea, renders navigation dangerous, excepting 
when it is made conspicuous by its white birds. 
Owinsr to this circumstance, Pindar called it 
o 
Nijiroi' tpaswcts/, ‘ The Conspicuous Island: his 
commentators add, that it was “ called The 
White Shore in the Euxine ; where many white 
birds appearing, shew the island to those who 
sail that way.” And again, “ It is called 
Leuce on account of the number of white 
birds ’ which make their nests there.” Euripides' 
describes it as the White Shore of Achilles, and 
calls it IIOATOPNI0ON, from the number of its 
birds. Scymnus Chius* also affirms that it was 
sacred to Achilles, and remarkable for its white 
(1) Pindar, Nem. A. 
(2) Pelicans. 
(S) Ipbigen. in Taur. 
( 4 ) Scymnus Chius. Frag. 1. 43. 
