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had an opportunity of consulting the log¬ 
book of the good ship the Castor and Pollux. 
He asks what wind a vessel would require in 
going from Meleda towards Rome, and re¬ 
plies, “a child with a chart before him would 
tell you it must be a wind from the north.” 
He then goes on to say, that as a north wind 
was unfavourable for the Straits of Messina, 
the vessel was compelled either to u beat the 
seas, or make to some port.” Accordingly 
they put into Syracuse. After three days, 
however, a side-wind fortunately sprung up, 
(Bryant has omitted to tell us whether it blew 
from the east or from the west,) and carried 
the ship into Regium. 
On the other hand, if the Castor and 
Pollux sailed from Malta, Bryant confesses 
himself altogether puzzled and baffled in his 
attempts to account for her subsequent course. 
And why ? Simply because the historian of 
