. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. DESCRIPTION OiF THE STllAlts OF MESSINA. 351 structive wliirlpool was reacTy toswallow up the vessel on the arose the famous proverb,applied to persons who, to escape athreatened danger, rush into theopposite: Ittcidit ia Scyllam cupiens vitare Cliarybdim. In the present day, however, theseperils no longer exist. The rocksofScylla rise out of smooth water(except at particular seasons), andCharybdis is only supposed io ex-ist in a rippling tide, which is per-ceived off the point of the Faro ofMessin
. The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics. DESCRIPTION OiF THE STllAlts OF MESSINA. 351 structive wliirlpool was reacTy toswallow up the vessel on the arose the famous proverb,applied to persons who, to escape athreatened danger, rush into theopposite: Ittcidit ia Scyllam cupiens vitare Cliarybdim. In the present day, however, theseperils no longer exist. The rocksofScylla rise out of smooth water(except at particular seasons), andCharybdis is only supposed io ex-ist in a rippling tide, which is per-ceived off the point of the Faro ofMessina. It is a subject worthy of investi-gation, to ascertain the causes whichhave rendered a passage throughthe straits at present so compara-tively easy and safe. It is supposed,that, from the constant force andattrition of the currents, the chan-nel has become wider, and, conse-quently, the stream less the true cause seems to be thefrequent earthquakes which havechanged the whole face of the coun-trj, and doubtless occasioned altera-tions to the very Iwttom of the sea.
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