FERRO!, AND CORUNNA. 
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inscription discovered near its foundation, a copy of which 
M. Laborde obligingly gave me, informs ns, that this pharos 
was constructed by Cains Scvius Lupus, architect of the city 
of Aqua Flavia (Chaves), and that it was dedicated to Mars. 
Why is the Iron Tower called in the country by the name 
of Hercules? Was it built by the -Romans on the ruins of 
a Greek or Phoenician edifice'? Strabo, indeed, affirms that 
Galicia, the country of the Callseci, bad been peopled by 
G reek colonies. According to an extract from the geography 
of Spain, by Aselepiades the Myrlsean, an ancient tradition 
stated that the companions of Iforcules had settled in these 
countries. 
The ports of Ferrol and Corunna both communicate with 
one bay, so that a vessel driven by bad weather towards the 
coast may anchor in either, according to the wind. This 
advantage is invaluable where the sea is almost always tem- 
pestuous, ns between capes Ortcgal and Finisterre, which 
are the promontories Tnleucum and Artabrum ol ancient 
geography. A. narrow passage, flanked by perpendicular 
rocks of granite, leads to the extensive basin of Ferrol. No 
port in Europe lias so extraordinary an anchorage, from its 
very inland position. The narrow ami tortuous passage by 
which vessels enter this port, lias been opened, either by the 
irruption of the waves, or by the reiterated shocks of very 
violent earthquakes, in the New World, on the coasts of 
New Andalusia, the Laguna del Obispo (Bishop’s lake) is 
formed exactly like the port of Ferrol. The most curious 
geological phenomena are often repeated at immense dis- 
tances on the surface of continents ; and naturalists who have 
examined different parts of the globe, are struck with the 
extreme resemblance observed in the rents on coasts, in the 
sinuosities of the vallies, in the aspect of the mountains, and 
in their distribution by groups. The accidental concurrence 
of the same causes must have everywhere produced the same 
effects ; and amidst the variety of nature, an analogy cf 
structure and form is observed in the arrangement of inani- 
mate matter, as well as in the internal organization of plants 
and of animals. 
Crossing from Corunna to Ferrol, over a shallow, near 
the W bite Signal, in the bay, which according to D’Anville is 
the Portus Magnus of the ancients, we made several experi- 
