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MOUNT ATLAS. 333tn cùnceive the distance to be, as computed, eighty miles from the Mogodorroad. It is however visible, they say, seventy leagues out at sea.Truly we see not why dissertation should offend, but it is the last sinof that description which thisvenerable ruler ofthe atmosphere shaH besought to shelter and proteet. Like Louis the Fourteenth, he boasts indeedof being the proteetor ofunfortunatelcings : such, history tells us,has more than once been the case. One ofthe derivations ofthe nameflows from the relative, A !tils, Snow"'. The great king seems to be apersonification of the mountain. This system, of personification pervadesaH the tradition of antiquity. It will not be attempted here toacc6nhtf6rthat apathy wherewith sorne are gifted, and enabled therebyto withstand the impressions'conveyed by thesesublime monumentsof the struggles of nature; but the precedent will not be acted upon inthe present case.. Atlas, too, which it is not the lot of many to seehere inhis glory, is now about to be lost sight of for ever. This is aconsideration which induces the mind to pondereThe seat of Jove, resting upon the Nile, and extending by the Canariestfar into the Western Ocean, inhabited by a primitive race ofmen, here in ils vicinity to Morocco, fertilizes, or at least presents'.li Ten~riffe, llotwithstânding its ancient denomination of Nivaria, does not reach the level ofperpetuaI snow. !tg Îleight has becll acctU'ately measured, rate it at twelve thousalld feet; ex pedeHerculem-:'Applyt4isW Atlas.t At the foot of Atlas, al~d opposite to the Callary Islands, is the road-stead of seven wells, towhichconsiderable importancêappears.to he (deservedly) annexed.-The route of the Odyssey incIuclesthese islands, the true Ht'sperides ofHe~iod,-so andeut is nautieal enterprise l The quinceis the saered fruit whieh Wall to reward it. How much idea is iuvolved here !-The quil1ce sacredto Venus, and why? Was it from its peeuliarity of requirillg impendcncy over water, to blossom,and consequently produce? Few of the arcana of Naturé were really unknown to the ancieuts. IgnoranCecould uot thell be kept in countenance by scoffing. What eomplicated etymological deductionspresent themselves in this direction! But soJa!~ plastic, and nautical ideas have suppliedthe basis of nearly ail fable.