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{111} See note {64}.
{112} The land was in reality the shallow inlet, now the
salt works of S. Cusumano—the neighbourhood of Trapani
and Mt. Eryx being made to do double duty, both as Sche-
ria and Ithaca. Hence the necessity for making Ulysses set
out after dark, fall instantly into a profound sleep, and wake
up on a morning so foggy that he could not see anything
till the interviews between Neptune and Jove and between
Ulysses and Minerva should have given the audience time
to accept the situation. See illustrations and map near the
end of bks. v. and vi. respectively.
{113} This cave, which is identifiable with singular com-
pleteness, is now called the ‘grotta del toro,’ probably a
corruption of ‘tesoro,’ for it is held to contain a treasure. See
The Authoress of the Odyssey, pp. 167-170.
{114} Probably they would.
{115} Then it had a shallow shelving bottom.
{116} Doubtless the road would pass the harbour in Od-
yssean times as it passes the salt works now; indeed, if there
is to be a road at all there is no other level ground which it
could take. See map above referred to.
{117} The rock at the end of the Northern harbour of Tra-
pani, to which I suppose the writer of the ‘Odyssey’ to be
here referring, still bears the name Malconsiglio—‘the rock
of evil counsel.’ There is a legend that it was a ship of Turk-
ish pirates who were intending to attack Trapani, but the
‘Madonna di Trapani’ crushed them under this rock just as
they were coming into port. My friend Cavaliere Gianni-
trapani of Trapani told me that his father used to tell him

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