t a shoal is marked down upon
the ship's chart as being in the centre. Having never before
heard the slightest allusion to this fact, I intend to
ascertain its accuracy, by actual inspection, at some more
favourable opportunity.

[2] "The ridge of the Somma forms a semicircle, the curve of
which lies north-east, its two extremities stretching out
south-east. The front, which faces the south-west and the
cone of Vesuvius, is almost perpendicular; but the side
towards the north is a sloping plain, cut lengthwise by deep
ravines, and covered with vineyards, except a few hundred
feet near the summit, which are clothed with small chestnut
and oak trees."--_Sketches of Vesuvius_, p. 2.

[3] Wingless Victory.

[4] "About 170 yards distant from the warm springs of the
Scamander, towards the west, the cold sources are found,
throwing out a considerable quantity of water from many
openings in the rock. It has been discovered, by the help of
a thermometer, which was thrust into a fissure as far as the
arm would permit it to go, that this spring is equally warm
with the former. The pool, however, which contains the water
being of so considerable a size as to suffer it immediately
to acquire the temperature of the atmosphere, it must
undoubtedly have appeared cold before the invention of an
instrument for ascertaining the real degree of heat. It
would, therefore, have been thought cold in the days of
Homer; and the poet is not incorrect who describes places
and things as they appear to the generality of mankind.
Several other sources contribute to swell this division of
the stream of the Scamander before its junction with the
rivulets which proceeds from the warm springs."--_Sir W.
Gell's Topography of Troy_, p. 76.

[5] "The women of Bounarbashi yet frequent the spring, as
their predecessors, the Trojan virgins, did before the
invasion by the Greeks. The convenience afforded by the
blocks of marble and granite to the women of the country,
who always beat their linen on stones or boards during the
time they are washing, added to the sensible warmth of the
water, has, in all probability, continued the practice of
resorting to this spring in preference to any other. The
Count de Choiseul Gouffier was informed by the Aga of
Bounarbashi, that the water threw up a very perceptible
steam in the winter; and later experiments, made with the
therm