The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-06-13
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eousheen sides ass about , h00Ared and
ssysav aad one AanArsd aad sieAty niies r..
spssu,eiy. while me sastern aids y 41ost one
hup.ared and twenty. The aorth wsstssa peias
4arsstA the ancient Llyb0un, whsse 0AaI.
sALpf landsd ne otAse ~. y ninstyl miles
from Cape Bon, In. Africa. wnich was known
to the ancisn;s - the Proaeatory 81 Nercu.
ley. Cape Peisss, the sorthsastern point,
{aac,ently the ProuAoatofy Of PsloEus.) 10 bat
three. miles from the Oslabfiaa coast. while
Cape Passars.i ts soathsestarn extremity, u
only sixsy nilss from AaAta.' i.
There is scarcely Aay country apou the
globe whose geAgrAphy ~ ~ iasss<sttug -
snsso " Sicily. Evssy sssp We sahs 10 upon
land hailowed bya thousand as~sociatious.-
Evsry village has . history. every city and
every tow dAses taek at least to he time Of
'shs OAfthaginians, asd soms Of then evsusto
the Trojan war The -MoaatAins hit antsr.
ssct 1t from sns seaa TO ~ other. aad throw
Q At spars IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. q EtheI
and affvrd ~tnnunera BILE Valleys TIE muss fse.
tils Ia tue world. Let n begis viii Marsais.
and proceed axound thsta1asd. aaststB
e Tnis spot, like msst others In Sicily, was ai-
ready iamous III hisiory befoIs it became the
sceue ot TIC drst asa IN tiae present drama. II
- the sSuthsrA hSif VI ssAs 1acteat tcWn Of
e Liiy se um, built BY the OArthagtnians four
AAsdTed ) ears bstose the Cagistiane era. They
sarFuuDded it BY walls 0f sxtEnordtnary
strength, aud . trench stxty fSt wide and !
forty deep. II was the strongest fortress they
had ia SIciiy aad 10 1t they iEansported the
tnhabstanIs OF S~siinas, n great csty, leprs-
seated at this day by the rutns Of Cassel Vet
raao. about twenty miles southeast VI Masss-
Sa,l when they destroy ed il 40 y. G, during
sie fins Paaic war. Lilyh0un was hssieged |
by the Romano daring shss ssiAe Wai, 7sAs
they were Lhable 10 make any 1mpressien on |
il, aud IL only came iut0 their possession By
tins treaty Of peacs. u. q. aas.) BY ina, treaty
they lost not only this city, bat the Lipari
Isles aid all their Possessions In Sicily. 1t
aonx cs4,iuusd 70 be . place Of impOrtance |
under the Romans, On account Of il excel |
aen. naro,r, and It's proximity 70 The Roman
provinces ~ Africa, the space bstwesn It
and The promvutory OF Mercury. nov
Cape Bon, measuring Oaly about nfaetyi
lpi.es, aud bsia & the shortest passage betweeas
Sicily and any portion Of Africa. Follow
ang the eoast Ia 8 . porshsss terra Aires-
alon, we come next - sTrspaniy (ehe snciens |
Dsepanu in, 50 called from the fancied rsssu.
hsAucs VI me Curvature In the coast 70 . reap
hook or siokie,) the place where, according 10
ylRslL, died, aud . feW miles
from it we Mud Mount San Juttano, he an.
cienI Eryx where he was buried, and where. !
% tho same authority, 6H1As bailI
a tenn pie TO his mother APaRoDErR, or vHuus, |
which Afterwards became famous throughout |
the earth. This, however, was long before the
Of the city, which owed is origin
to the Carthaginian General HAMILcAR, who
selected the spot for q naval station 1t tho
commencement Of ths nrst Punic war gee /
years before Christ. The next object Of is.
terest which we meet with In approaehinG
is the RUNS Of Aleasho, situatad eupons
two small rivers, not Tar from The point
they enter the Cuff Of Oastella Mars, |
lancientIy SegastH Emporium The ancient
Of Segesta, SAID to have besn tsanded By
4ENkAs, sloa upon the ruins 81 AlcamO~-t
TIE fugitive TrojaaA bearing win them
wherever they went the memory OF thstrAbe-
loved Troy, called the two nttle rtvsrs Sim0is
aud Scamauder. This touching story Waa
believed BY the ssctenes. yet tes
probability Is that SegestA was dreek colony.
1t was taken by A~oATHoc4xs, whe sold It's
for slaves, and changed IT. nane
10 Dicsc, bu: il ancient name was af,sr-
xards restored. TIE hext soWa 10 Palermo,
ancient,v Panofmus, or Panormisis. to whose
history we have already alluded and about
.wsn,y, miles 70 ths easI Of IL - Terminal, ON
me- si,e Of 4sAe aneieat Thsrmn. Thsrme was
10 ca.ied from tho warn springs in III neighs
,orhood. II was on one sids Of the river Nil
n.r,. dnOw F~aamsSalso,) while ths oolabeated
.osn vi Himera stood ON the other. 1t Wa ]
Il Hiuera mat the united forces Of 0aLoM.
ryrant Of Syracuse, and THERON, Tyrans OF
dsieAtsa with immense slaughter
J powerful UArthagiaiaa f0roe seat 70 ssstQre
who had besn expelled from Agri.
IA nv CHxRoN. and thArehv. NO donhr u /