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and the Epic,’ p.236, and ‘Longman’s Magazine’ for Janu-
ary, 1898, p.277) about the ‘amber route’ and the ‘Sacred
Way’ in this connection; but until he gives his grounds for
holding that the Mediterranean peoples in the Odyssean
age used to go far North for their amber instead of getting
it in Sicily, where it is still found in considerable quantities,
I do not know what weight I ought to attach to his opinion.
I have been unable to find grounds for asserting that B.C.
1000 there was any commerce between the Mediterranean
and the ‘Far North,’ but I shall be very ready to learn if Mr.
Lang will enlighten me. See ‘The Authoress of the Odyssey’
pp. 185-186.
{85} One would have thought that when the sun was
driving the stag down to the water, Ulysses might have ob-
served its whereabouts.
{86} See Hobbes of Malmesbury’s translation.
{87} ‘Il.’ vxiii. 349. Again the writer draws from the wash-
ing the body of Patroclus—which offends.
{88} This visit is wholly without topographical signifi-
cance.
{89} Brides presented themselves instinctively to the
imagination of the writer, as the phase of humanity which
she found most interesting.
{90} Ulysses was, in fact, to become a missionary and
preach Neptune to people who knew not his name. I was
fortunate enough to meet in Sicily a woman carrying one
of these winnowing shovels; it was not much shorter than
an oar, and I was able at once to see what the writer of the
‘Odyssey’ intended.

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