low Sicily., rand the .other at itlhe point -<ff iGalabria; .andfor the
greater coidkmation of aids (matter, iKireher mcntionsahigh rock
ftandiiigmat in the middle Ofthis current, likesthe-rock before
delcribed, inithe TOrtex eaMedSnmhoe; andb^ainlydsigfe high
rocks, in the midft of fuGh perilous fbeams, are no other than
natmral «masks flat oap hy Ood himfelf, that navigators, having
tiiffi^ (notice, may avoid'the danger.
Next, Mr. «PeterCiauflon, in his description of Norway, writes,
that tliliri (gyration of the water is attended-with fe h wearingagitations.
ias aso Be heard many miles off. This would not be the
cafe were this vortex occafioned By the extraordinary -prefundky
of the bottom; for it iis deepeft in ftill waters-; But fihefe roarings
proceed ftqmtbe water Being retarded, %• its-ttonti^iuh betwixt
two -iflands, in its prsgrefs towards the (land at the time of flood,
and hkewHe m its KgiHsthro’ theiaine naraow paiSageat @Bb; and,
masctmx* Ae-flaod.is ofeftradtedby JpiralhiHs, or ptetoberanGes,
and fofiy angular rocks^ from whence it is natural to conclude,
that fueh violent colliiions muft •dcafe-a temWeatoSBi1- Thirdly
Mr. Claufion writes, that this ffoeam abfo&s whde trees, andaffep
fobmeipng them, they some up again with their roots .and
branches ftript and torn, which is oecafloned by tireie round
and angular weeks, which Ha the rapid gyrations o f tthe treses
round them, the bark* and tear the roots and hraaches;
and masy of thefe mangled trees arc driven to Terras, whereas
in an afcyls, they would be carried another way ; for then
the cavity would he iaTge and deep, and ithe water eirCrulate
genriy, and whatever was abforbed would ;paJs through the&byls
without any damage.; las-may be feen foam the plain inftafiee of
a piece of wood put into a funnel, afterwards idled with water.”
Thus far Mr. Dshes.
It is evident, from the premifos, that fome ancient and foreign
writers, who could not minutely examine the circumftances, mif-
took thefe vortices as -the caufe of the ehh and flood; of which
they are, on the contrary, in reality the I muff not omit
here, that Mr. Jonas Ramus, in the above-mentioned plarp,
page ago, ^kcl labours to fhew it probable, that Scylla andCha-
rybdis, which have always been accounted to lie upon the coaft of
Sicily, Wore no-other than this Moikoeffrom, whither Ulyfies was
aâtB^-drib^êà!the'«au®fe-^f his -wanderingsU the inundations ski%*V' ® C7 \ ; '■ ' ' p| " > ' I f nïGni.GGncernof
the -water (in the DanKh language, Vandeÿs Skyllen) and the ’!>g th?/!tuf •
ifland Skarfhohn, having'given ocfcafion to the names of Scylla *nd Charrb-
and Cthaiybdis. Though I can By no me’ans agree to the opinion
of'this ingenious •'Gentleman;, • concerning-§gly ffes’s -voyage, yet^ in
proving the (probability Jbf rft in ;anohprileacited 'piece, ;it u n i te
canfe&d, that he has ,given proofs ofan. wcommon erudition and
genius, and as to the Mofeodftrom, I /hall exhibit his opinion
in his otvn Words, that then thp deader may adopt as much and
as httleraf at .as be pfeaifes.
f£ Halogaland appears to 'be one of the flpft inhaHited 'provinces
.in Norway ; ffor Jbm after the Trsgan war, TJhyHèk, whofe name
was ©utin, Ming to the exteenÉ:JioMts i>f rrhe great beean, ;air-
«wad ha a; dark country, -of which he gives the following deferjp-
riori ; it was foil ©f high mountains, reaching to- the veryrdlou
-and perpetually r-cbvered with mifts and (thick diarknefs, that
ei^oyed the Btifingaw'
.-flitting, -and there he met with fwolhbrribfe fea-vèrtices, Scylla
•Bttd-Çhtefyhdts, the hedfe iff fehfohfflfiack him.wiA iferior, befote
Be «ante near thepu; and then he flaw «, yfolent febuflition of the
fëa,olike. a ' boiling-kettle, throwing up froth and fmoke, vihich
wef^ a&pidly tarried up -in the air. All this im ky many
-been falfly interpreted -of Mie ftiait near M y , though that
jfland thas 'troac of thofe high mouatains, .coveted witii dark
cloi«*ls, riot that gloorftlntfs impenatfaidc to the-rays, of the fon,
»M- a periUous roaring ftream, Id as bë impaflàbk without ex-
^ofiae -dî^er. But all fois pKrfbi9diy coiaacides with Mofkoe-
-ftrom,. ifi^Ç; Hellelmd, A^jereifoeire ite, oaperfide?of-Lafodt,
-thole, high mouîatffns tailed HeMsggen, the fommits f f which,
1 according toHomer’s defcription, were inaCeeffible toanyman^tiio’
he had twenty hands and foeÇ, and in winter involved in continual
mifts, and darkneft; >for from jtfie* oyth of -Noveahber to the
2 |.th of December, old ftüe, the fon is nev^r feen there. Thgde,
Hkewifo, are -thole terriye ,èl>illlitions, and horribife ifouïtds, which
forewified t%flesW.
flmüar tottiie roaringfall and|Vytl^W -Twb«e
the ftream overflows the intermediate rôçfks and iflaruds, andtthns
oame to behalfod §cillap]from Skillérs; and on the'other fide of' ;
I 3 a ' - ' - Molkoe,