148,) who supposes that the harpies were only locusts.

The Syriac or Phoenician name of those insects, their noisy flight, the stench and devastation which they occasion, and the north wind which drives them into the sea, all contribute to form the striking resemblance.] [Footnote 5: The residence of Amycus was in Asia, between the old and the new castles, at a place called Laurus Insana.

That of Phineus was in Europe, near the village of Mauromole and the Black Sea.

See Gyllius de Bosph.l.ii.c.23.

Tournefort, Lettre XV.] [Footnote 6: The deception was occasioned by several pointed rocks, alternately sovered and abandoned by the waves.