been wretchedly misled by his informers on many occasions.

"That Strabo had never visited this country is evident, not
only from his inaccurate account of it, but from his citation
of Appollodorus and Scepsius, whose relations are in direct
opposition to each other on the subject of Ithaca, as will be
demonstrated on a future opportunity."

We must, however, observe that "demonstration" is a strong term.--In
his description of the Leucadian Promontory (of which we have a
pleasing representation in the plate), the author remarks that it is
"celebrated for the _leap_ of Sappho, and the _death_ of Artemisia."
From this variety in the expression, a reader would hardly conceive
that both the ladies perished in the same manner: in fact, the
sentence is as proper as it would be to talk of the decapitation of
Russell, and the death of Sidney. The view from this promontory
includes the island of Corfu; and the name suggests to Mr. Gell the
following note, which, though rather irrelevant, is of a curious
nature, and we therefore conclude our citations by transcribing it:--

"It has been generally supposed that Corfu, or Corcyra, was
the Phæacia of Homer; but Sir Henry Englefield thinks the
position of that island inconsistent with the voyage of
Ulysses as described in the Odyssey. That gentleman has also
observed a number of such remarkable coincidences between the
courts of Alcinous and Solomon, that they may be thought
curious and interesting. Homer was familiar with the names of
Tyre, Sidon, and Egypt; and, as he lived about the time of
Solomon, it would not have been extraordinary if he had
introduced some account of the magnificence of that prince