[Footnote 32: The report of Agatharcides, (de Mari Rubro, p.
63, 64, in Hudson, tom. i.) Diodorus Siculus, (tom. i. l.
iii. c. 47, p. 215,) and Strabo, (l. xvi. p. 1124.) But I
much suspect that this is one of the popular tales, or
extraordinary accidents, which the credulity of travellers
so often transforms into a fact, a custom, and a law.]