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 77 ears of a dog, their one eye set in the middle of their forehead, the hair standing erect, and their breasts shaggy ; % of the Amnktdres also, a people without nostrils, who devour everything, eat raw meat, and are short-lived, and die before old age supervenes.* The upper part of the mouth protrudes far over the lower lip. ® With regard to the Hyperboreans, wHo live a thousand years, they give the same account as Simonid^s, Pindaros, and other mythological writers. t ^^ The story told by TimagenSs, that % What Megasthenda here mentions as the characteris- tios of a single tribe are by the Indians attribnted to several. The one-eyed men they are wont to call SkdksJids or eka- vilo-chomds — the men with hair standing erect, urdhvakeia, Indian Oycldpes even are mentioned nnder the name of LalM&kshdSt i.e. having one eye in the forehead: vide Schwanb. 70. • " That the Astorm are mentioned in the Indian books we cannot show so well as in the case of the Amukterea, whom Megasthends describes as iray^ayovs^ afAO(f>ay6vSf ^oiyoxpovi6vs. Nevertheless the verv words of the de- scription are a proof that he followed the narratives of the Indians, for the words nafw^ayoy, Ac by which he has described the Amnkt^res, are very rarely nsed in Oreek, and are translations of Indian words." Schwanb. 69. t Pindar, who locates the Hyperboreans somewhere about the months of the Ister, thns sings of them: — " Bnt who with ventarons conrse through wave or waste To Hyperborean haunts and wilds uutracedj E'er found his wondrous way ? There Perseus pressed amain, And 'midst the feast eutered their strange abode, Where hecatombs of asses shun To soothe the radiant god Astounded he beheld. Their rude solemnities, Their barbarous shouts, Apollo's heart delight : Laughing the rampant brute he sees Insult the solemn rite. Still their sights, their customs strange, Scare not the * Muse,' while all around