tnote 24: _Helice and Buris._--Ver. 293. We learn from Pliny
the Elder and Orosius, that Helice and Buris, cities of Achaia at
the mouth of the Corinthian gulf, were swallowed up by an
earthquake, and that their remains could be seen in the sea.
A similar fate attended Port Royal, in the island of Jamaica, in
the year 1692. Its houses are said to be still visible beneath the
waves.]

[Footnote 25: _The raging power._--Ver. 299. Pausanias tells us,
that in the time of Antigonus, king of Macedonia, warm waters
burst from the earth, through the action of subterranean fires,
near the city of Troezen. Perhaps the 'tumulus' here mentioned
sprang up at the same time.]

[Footnote 26: _Or the hide._--Ver. 305. He alludes to the
goat-skins, which formed the 'utres,' or leathern bottles, for
wine and oil.]

[Footnote 27: _Horned Ammon._--Ver. 309. The lake of Ammon, in
Libya, which is here referred to, is thus described by Quintius
Curtius (Book IV. c. 7)-- 'There is also another grove at Ammon;
in the middle it contains a fountain, which they call 'the water
of the Sun.' At daybreak it is tepid; at mid-day, when the heat is
intense, it is ice cold. As the evening approaches, it grows
warmer; at midnight, it boils and bubbles; and as the morning
approaches, its midnight heat goes off.' Jupiter was worshipped in
its vicinity, under the form of a ram.]

[Footnote 28: _Athamanis._--Ver. 311. This wonderful fountain was
said to be in Dodona, the grove sacred to Jupiter.]

[Footnote 29: _Have a river._--Ver. 313. Possibly the Hebrus is
here meant. The petrifying qualities of some streams is a fact
well known to naturalists.]

[Footnote 30: _The Crathis._--Ver. 315. Crathis and Sybaris were
streams of Calabria, flowing into the sea, near Crotona. Euripides
and Strabo tell the same story of the river Crathis. Pliny the
Elder, in his thirty-second Book, says-- 'Theophrastus tells us
that Crathis, a river of the Thurians, produces whiteness, whereas
the Sybaris causes blackness, in sheep and cattle. Men, too, are
sensible of this difference; for those who drink of the Sybaris,
become more swarthy and hardy, with the hair curling; while those
who drink of the Crathis become fairer, and more effeminate with
the hair straight.']

[Footnote 31: _Salmacis._--Ver. 319. See Book IV. l