that it is
"celebrated for the _leap_ of Sappho, and the _death_ of Artemisia."
From this variety in the expression, a reader would hardly conceive
that both the ladies perished in the same manner: in fact, the
sentence is as proper as it would be to talk of the decapitation of
Russell, and the death of Sidney. The view from this promontory
includes the island of Corfu; and the name suggests to Mr. Gell the
following note, which, though rather irrelevant, is of a curious
nature, and we therefore conclude our citations by transcribing it:--

"It has been generally supposed that Corfu, or Corcyra, was
the Phaeacia of Homer; but Sir Henry Englefield thinks the
position of that island inconsistent with the voyage of
Ulysses as described in the Odyssey. That gentleman has also
observed a number of such remarkable coincidences between the
courts of Alcinous and Solomon, that they may be thought
curious and interesting. Homer was familiar with the names of
Tyre, Sidon, and Egypt; and, as he lived about the time of
Solomon, it would not have been extraordinary if he had
introduced some account of the magnificence of that prince
into his poem. As Solomon was famous for wisdom, so the name
of Alcinous signifies strength of knowledge; as the gardens of
Solomon were celebrated, so are those of Alcinous (Od.
7.112.); as the kingdom of Solomon was distinguished by twelve
tribes under twelve princes (1 Kings, ch. 4.), so that of
Alcinous (Od. 8. 390.) was ruled by an equal number; as the
throne of Solomon was supported by lions of gold (1 Kings, ch.
10.), so that of Alcinous was placed on dogs of silver and
gold (Od, 7. 91.); as the fleets of Solomon were famous, so
were those of Alcinous. It is perhaps worthy of remark, that
Neptune sate on the mountains of the SOLYMI, as he returned
from AEthiopia to AEgae, while he raised the tempest which threw
Ulysses on the coast of Phaeacia; and that the Solymi of
Pamphylia are very considerably distant from the route.--The
suspicious character, also, which Nausicaa attributes to her
countryman agrees precisely with that which the Greeks and
Romans gave of the Jews."

The seventh chapter contains a description of the Monastery of
Kathara, and several adjacent places. The eighth, among other
curiosities, fixes on an imaginary site for the Farm of Laertes: but
this is the agony of conje