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18 have been ailing a hort ditance from it, and intructed them where the iland was mot lately acceible, and where the hips might bet lie at anchor. They even ay further, that Achilles has appeared to them not in time of leep, or a dream, but in a viible form on the mat, or at the extremity of the yards, in the ame manner as the Diocuri have appeared. This ditinction however mut be made between the appearance of Achilles, and that of the Diocuri, that the latter appear evidently and clearly to perons, who navigate the ea at large, and when o een foretell a properous voyage; whereas the figure of Achilles is een only by uch as approach this iland. Some alo ay, that Patroclus has appeared to them during their leep. I have thus put down what I have heard concerning this iland of Achilles, either from perons who had touched there themelves, or from others that had made the ame enquiries; and indeed thee accounts eem to me to be not unworthy of belief. I am myelf peruaded, that Achilles was a hero, if ever man was, being illutrious by his noble birth, by the beauty of his peron, by the trength of his mind and undertanding, by his untimely death in the flower of youth, by his being the ubject of Homer's poetry, and, latly, by the force of his love, and contancy of his friendhip, inomuch that he would even die for his friends.

From the mouth of the Iter called Pilon to the econd mouth is ixty tadia. Thence to the mouth called Calon forty tadia. From Calon to Naracum, which lat is the name of the fourth mouth of the Iter, ixty tadia. Hence to the fifth mouth a hundred and twenty tadia. Hence to the city of Itria five hundred tadia. From Itria to the city of Tomea three hundred tadia. From Tomea to the city of Callantra, where there is a port, three hundred