[132] Gosselin has satisfactorily demonstrated that Strabo is wrong in supposing that these passages relate to the Atlantic Ocean, and most of our readers will come at once themselves to the same conclusion. Those, however, who wish for proofs, may refer to the French translation, vol. i. p. 51, n.
[133] The ancient name of the city of Naples.
[134] Puteoli, now Pozzuolo, in Campania.
[135] Mare Morto, south of Baia, and near to the ruins of Mycene.
[136] Aornus or Avernus: this lake, which lies about one mile north of Baia, still retains its ancient appellation.
[137] Vide Virgil, Æneid vi. 162.
[138] Cythæron and Helicon, two mountains of Bœotia, the latter of which is now named Zagaro Voreni.
[139] Parnassus, a mountain of Phocis, near Delphi.
[140] Pelion, a mountain of Magnesia, in Thessaly.
[141] They attempted to place Ossa upon Olympus, and upon Ossa leafy Pelion. Odyssey xi. 314. The mountains Pelion, Ossa, and Olympus, bounded the eastern coasts of Thessaly.