Eastward the harbour arches, scarce descried,
Two jutting rocks, by billows lashed in vain,
Stretch out their arms the narrow mouth to hide.
Far back the temple stands and seems to shun the tide.
—Æneid, Bk. III., lxviii.
[899] A New Description of England and Wales, 1724, p. 84.
[900] The English Language, p. 141.
[901] Mr. and Mrs. Hawes, Crete the Forerunner of Greece, p. 123.
[902] Hazlitt, W. Carew, Faiths and Folklore, i., 222.
[903] Iliad, ii., 940.