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Show Mjlhs el .Is lent Marin rs. , Billoni' yjrnt li iv. nl i lvnrclo lirdcl fr their uiiag native 1 . nrai tor. Tliiflo of loilay, b m - liu no oj n r limit j fur fat oral ' iouijiiii 11 with thu St .rice told lry niarimr of ulitliUitt Ihe latter were able to count iqion nn In, thinstlblo imblio rmliilily. nolhiiig whlih they could jll.ly invent l lug Ion tiuinslrons or untwinl for lirllef. Their talea prreuinnbly did much to anginent tho tean of the 1 e wl 11 h wi re I commonly cntertaineil In Ihoso di), giving Isrtb to many of the myihs of eerun. Tliey tobl nNmtthestranjelalid I inlial.ltateel by lotna eators. who finl llm I thnfrr.lt of forget rulnru nnd lost all memory of aountrv nnd frt, nfN. Hey- 01 d was tho terrible land of tlio one eyed planta, calllM lb.p, they said, wfiilo e Newhere were to lie fo Hid Hi" strnngo I 1 nils whete the em tuudn-eM- Circej i and 'aho lhfi.1. These Mauds were I In the narrow western MM rra eon, I and lond was the Cuniiiirian tind, 1 where the iilo IIvhI in dnrkneas nl- ways, inbnbiting gloomy cu ( t. There wore the Sirens alNi, whoee song I Vraa ilellll. Tliey were tonbmilMl to t die when n man aiou1d ti tin 1 1 with-mil with-mil "topping. Ulysaeinccouiplishedthia by putMug wax In hla our- rl they wiru changed Intu roeai of Horrcnto, when they atlll rust a terror to marine mari-ne rs. Tbe Hlreiia t pif the surf, whoso barmniimiu tnorniure are oft.ii tho elnatti music 1 f Hie aatlor. Jti like manner ibo Cye lops represent the (Jtomi 1'lend, ns their names show, llrontes Is tho roll, hteropM tho 1I1O1 andArgitthe whiteness white-ness nf lightning. Ltki wlaei the ano'ey (lorlons nro thought to bo flguratiro rcirew utatlont of tho white capped nnd angry waves. ,ol lesa to in, reared were tlio ilrooiirul , byinplegailea hugo moving rorka which ere fablod to crush shijie ittsslng U-tnivntbem. U-tnivntbem. IthasleenaiirmlMHl that the trmlitloll rostjectttig these rocks was I elcrhcil from tlio (bating icebergs, which 'during tl.o glncl.il period in tt hue Lvuril from the llhickaon; btlttliiaavciiu hardly likely. Washington blur. |