1 On the Tower of the Winds, at Athens, there is a conchshell placed in the hands of Boreas. See Stuart's Antiquities. The north wind," says Herodotus, in speaking of the Hyperboreans, "never blows with them."

2" Sub ipso siderum cardine jacent."-POMPON. MELA.

3 "They can show the moon very near."--DIODOR. SICUL. 4 Hecatæus tells us, that this Hyperborean island was dedicated to Apollo; and most of the inhabitants were either priests or songsters. 5 Pausan.