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Show literature of modern times. Thns, ro iti'-r lmck to earlv ilaya, tho port mid philosophers of (ireeco ami Home detailed nci'imnla of the lund whither mortal wend their way when this lifo is over, v numerating iu rivers, its lakes, iti woods and mountains. Aceordinuly, llysse was wiid to reach tlio place of the ilend by crowing the ocean to tho I'immerian land, iKneii to have entered it, hy the Lake A vermis, whereas Xeitnphon informs u that Hercules went t'nero by the penill-kuI.i penill-kuI.i of Aivehusnide. In early times tlio Canary I.-dands were regarded as tlw nei.u'hl'orlinml of tilt) terrestrial home of the blessed dead, and many wonderful '. stories were told of this enchanted locality. lo-cality. Thus, as Washington Irvinj: writes: Iccahiotially this eniffinaiical sjt : would he visible from their shores, j Ptretehiin; far away in the clear bright ! west, to all nppeiirancu substantial liko j themselves and still more leantiftil. ' Exieilitiotis would launch forth from theC'anaries toexplore tliish'tid of promise. prom-ise. Kir a loin; t :ine lis sun irilt ponlts ! and hliadoxvy promontories would ro- main distinctly visihle, hut in propor-i propor-i tion as the voyagers approach' d J : It ! and promontory would gradually fadu ' away until nothing would remain hut ', blue sky above and deep blue water be- ! low." ' This legendary land was, as the I'ortu-; I'ortu-; Stuose nt'd Spanish declared, nit island ' which ha 1 sorietimes been lighted upon by iiccid--nt, 1 ut when sought for could ; not lie found. Hut u lin;,' of Portugal is ; said to have made a conditional Htir-I Htir-I render of it to another when it should b discovered, an I when the kingdom of ' Portugal ceded to the Casliliau crown i its ri'Iiis over t'ie Canaries the treaty ; iuclu.led the) if.land of Ilrandnm, dc-: dc-: "crihed as the inland which had not yet u-en found. Loudon Stan-lard. LEGLNDARY WORLDS. llxprdiliims Set Out frnni Hit' Cutmry Isl-amli Isl-amli In lisovr Tlii'm. Stories of legendary worlils hnvo nt nil ' times j.ost-esseil n fuMt'i tuition for most niimU and funned the mibject, of much enrior.-i ef.ecuhttioti. However childish Mich tiiles limy seem at Win present dny, "they once wielded sufficient sway," f-nys M. nmnririnn in his "History of the Heavens," "over men's minds us to giu'n their belief iii the veritable existence of the I'laees described. ;t;id in this way to influence their astronomical and cosmo-graphical cosmo-graphical ideas." s Many such legends originated when Keo;.rrajihy was in its infancy and tlifl greater part f the world's surfaco mill unknown. From that time, too, travel-tin travel-tin like Sir John Mandeville excited curiosity by relating discoveries which Ibey professed to have made in their distant dis-tant journcyiii',', ami which those who received them readily accepted as facts. In process of time these mythical accounts ac-counts were eradually circulated from out coiuiiry to another ami became interwoven in-terwoven with the traditions of tho people iinioii whom they were told. Hence, in one form or ano'.her, we find in most parts of the world mimeroUH Rton.-s of lendary worlds si ill current, survivals vl which may be traced to the , |