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but when they cease, and the then the Flood in the River Moreover the Taste of that and the Monsters in it resemin the Nile. ' Seneca Nat. Quest.



The Northern Farts of Europe were long unknown to the Greeks. AR 1STÆAS, a Native of Proconnejus, first visited the Scythians, and found, as he said, a People among them with only one Eye, whom he called Arimajpians, and were the fiercest of Men. He composed at his Return a Work called by their Name. The most judicious Strabo gives this Character of 17 <-0) him : — c* Aristœas, the Author of the Ari. (m) " maspian Poems, as they are commonly called " — a Quack, if ever there was one in the "World." Geography Book 13. ^

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