apparent wonder and stupid gazing at objects, by Tεs; their mute silence, by Nиπ, in the 99th line; their very-singular manner (practised by the males in particular,) of supporting themselves upon their hind-legs, assisted by their tails, and throwing forward their open outspread claws in a threatening attitude, is clearly referred to in the 115th line, ποδ' αρ' εζετο χειρε πετασσας Αμφοτέρας their mode of attack by striking round with their tails, so that the blows they give would meet a man about the knees; by γενων αψασθαι, ελλισ σετο γενων, and Γενομαι σ' Αχιλευ' and I incline to think it was this remarkaale use of their claws and tails by the kangeroos which caused the first discoverers of the island to give it the name it still bears, of Diemen, or Dæmon, or Land of the Devil. The other still more astonishing characteristics of the kangeroos are not forgotten their manner of moving by successive leaps through the air, is implied by Aλro, repeated in the next line AXTËw, and more particularly by the 126th line, Θρώσκων τις κατα κύμα μελαιναν φριχ' υπα λύξει, where their very singular sort of undulatory motion is described as resembling that of a fish in the waves of the sea and I notice, by the way, that the μɛλawav pema, mentioned in that line, seems to allude to the large black opussums of Van Diemen's Land, referred to perhaps before by unga μɛλawav, in the 66th line; and perhaps even, nominatim, by the words Пndaσov aπYEσσav, of the 87th line. Another striking parεσσαν, ticularity is that of the female kangeroos carrying their young, alive, in pouches under their breasts, which seems to be implied by the words ou de συ δε φρεσι βάλλεο σησι (94,) and still more evidently by the next line, επει εκ ομογαστριος Εκτορος ειμι, which plainly intimates that their bellies are not formed like those of other animals. The last circumstance I shall notice, which in fact is the most surprizing of all, is the peculiar conformation of the pudendum of the males, in which that is behind which in all other animals lies before, and this seems to be referred to (if the import of the words undea and aids be recollected) by the 99th line, Μη μοι αποινα πιφαύσκες, μηδ' αγορευε, and still more manifestly by the 75th line, Αντι τοι ειμ' ικεταο, διοτρεφές, αιδοιοιο, the word avt, from the opposition it implies, evidently alluding to the circumstance remarked. But besides the very accurate notice, thus taken by the poet, of the kangeroos; the manners of the inhabitants themselves, and the geographical form of Van Diemen's Land, have not been overlooked. The black colour of those inhabitants has already been noticed, and their savage and perhaps cannibal nature seems to be implied by the epithet avdgoμsolo, in the 70th line, or perhaps that word may refer merely to their habit of eating their food raw and undressed, a circumstance noticed in the 122d: Ενταυθοι νυν κεισο μετ' ιχθύσιν οι σ' ωτειλής which seems to allude obliquely to their practice of licking or sucking the blood of fish (noticed by voyagers,) and eating them alive. If I recollect right, the accounts we have of Van Diemen's Land state, that a considerable portion of what has been explored of it, is made up of loose stones and pebbles, and that may be insinuated by the use of the name Aäolon, in the 85th line; and (lastly,) the words of the 129th line, -εγω δ' οπιθεν κεραΐζων, most manifestly refer to the two extensive promontories which project like horns at each end of the south side of the country; the notice of which circumstance, coupled with what I have before said of the tools of Vulcan, proves unquestionably that the whole circuit of it was well known to the ancients in the time of Homer. In the mention made above of most of the distinguished heroes of the Iliad, and of many of its principal incidents, some notice is taken of every considerable portion of land on the face of the globe, except the rocky barren islands of New Zealand (which could scarcely be unknown to those who knew Van Diemen's Land so well), and Greenland, and Spitzbergen, of which I shall say a few words presently. As to the great body of the ocean, it was the medium by which the land became known, and could not therefore but be known itself; it was usually considered by the ancients under a threefold division, which, among many other things, seems to have been alluded to when it is said of Nestor, the hero of England, META τριτάτοισιν ανασσεν. It was perhaps likewise alluded to in the Trident of Neptune, 5 Od. 297, Χερσι τριαιναν ελών, the ocean being in fact separated (by the two |