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36 It was alo a principal intrument of the michief done to the fleet of Æneas.

Ovid peaks of the well of the Euxine Sea in terms nearly imilar to thoe of Arrian.

Inque modum tumuli concava urgit aqua. Trit. lib. ii. Eleg. x. ver. 20.

Apollonius decribes the hip Argo, as nearly unk in the ame ituation with that of Arrian, by the well of the ea breaking over the middle or ide of the veel.

The embarrament however of Arrian and his aociates did not terminate altogether on their arrival at this port. The torm continued, and the wind veered about to different points, as is common both in the Mediterranean, and in other places ubject to hurricanes. Thus Virgil, decribing torm, pecies everal winds as either blowing at the ame time, or in rapid ucceion.

Una Eurus Notuque ruunt, crebcrqnc proccllis Africus. Æn. lib. i. ver. 89.

And Ovid in more expres terms.

Inter utmmqne fremunt immani turbine venti.

Necit, uri domino parent, undai maris. Nam