by such a classic mirror, that the scenery itself is oft forgotten. The prospect from these heights extends to the Albanian coast, where the snow-capped mountains impend over the olive groves and irregular villages that adorn their sides, and where the ancient Buthrotum lies neglected at their feet :

"The sight of high Phæacia soon we lost,

And skimm'd along Epirus' rocky coast;
Then to Chaonia's port our course we bend
And landed, to Buthrotus' heights ascend."

This is one of the most splendid panoramic views in the tour of the islands. It comprehends every description of object that can contribute to fill up a great prospect, and is composed in one of nature's happiest manners. Having enjoyed this general view, the scenery may be taken in detail, and first Paleocastrizza is to be sought: it is an ancient fortress, strongly situated on a cliff that overhangs the sea, and now occupied by monks and military. The position is singularly beautiful and grand, and the ride thither, from Corfu, sixteen miles, leads through some of the most varied, lovely, and agreeable scenery in Europe. The Pass of Pantaleone, near the intersection of the two mountain-chains that quarter out the island, commands the northern division of Corfu: while the Pass of Garouni overlooks the southern portion so completely, that, having visited these stations, the topography of the island is immediately understood, and the character of Corfiote scenery developed; but the beautiful details are still to be unfolded by many, very many visits to glen, wood, rock, and promontory.

The city of Corfu stands on a triangular-shaped promontory, sloping to the north-west, having its base attached to the island, and its vertex pointing to the snowcapped mountains of Albania, with a retiring bay on either side. At the very apex of the triangle stands the citadel, distinguished by its two turreted eminences, "the lofty citadels of the Phæacians." The promontory was originally attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, but is now totally separated for purposes of defence, by a ditch eighty yards in breadth, forty in depth, and one hundred and fifty in length. The sea enters at the northern end, and flows up to a curtain wall on the south. Within the citadel, which is five hundred and forty feet in circumference, are the old palace, two Greek churches, artillery stores, barracks, residences of different government officers, and an armoury, now converted into an English chapel.

CARTHAGE, once the mistress of powerful armies, numerous fleets, the commerce of the civilized world, and long the dreaded rival of haughty Rome, was the capital, not only of the Carthaginian territory, but of Africa Propria. At first it was named Cadmeia the Eastern, from Cadmus, a term commonly applied to Phoenician chiefs; but afterwards Caccabes, the Phoenician for a horse's head.

"The Tyrians landing near the holy ground,
And digging here, a prosperous omen found,
From under earth a courser's head they drew,
Their growth and future fortune to foreshew:
This fated sign their foundress, Juno, gave,
Of a soil fruitful, and a people brave."

From this event the Carthaginians had, on the reverses of their coins, either a horse's head, or the carcass dimidiated, or a horse entire, with Victory mounted on him. It is also affirmed that Dido found a city named Utica, the Old, already existing; and that she called her settlement, Cartha-hadath, or Carthadt, " the new city," which the Greeks corrupted into Carchedon, and the Romans into Carthage. The ancient Romans designated this famous place, "Cataco," as appears from an inscription on the naval column, Columna Rostrata, at Rome, erected in honour of Caius Duilius. Livy says that Carthage was destroyed in the consulate of Lentulus and Mummius, the 4568th year of the Julian period, after it had stood seven hundred and thirty-seven years; which assigns its foundation to the year 883 B.C., and the second of Athaliah, queen of Judah. In chronological tables it is placed in the year 869 B.C. To relieve their embarrassments, chronologists suppose that there were three distinct portions of Carthage, founded at as many different periods: Cothon, from Katum, an excavation, was the earliest; Magaria, or Megara, which was Carthada, or the New City, built one hundred and ninety-four years later; and Byrsa, the citadel, either from Bursa, a hide, or Borsa, a fortification, founded one hundred and sixty-six years later than Magaria.

Whatever may be the exact date of the foundation, the Phoenicians are unequivocally acknowledged to have been the founders. Eusebius, Procopius, and St. Austin are of opinion that the Canaanites, who fled before Joshua, withdrew to this part of Africa, and that the Carthaginians were their descendants. Zorus and Charcedon, two