Mr D. cenſures Voſſius for imagining that the Gorgons and Gorillæ had any reference to each other; and obſerves, that it was not the Greeks, nor even the Carthaginian Hanno himſelf, who gave them this appellation, but the interpreters, whom they had procured from the Lixitæ; and that it is probable, that this word Gorillæ is of African origin, whereas the word Gorgon is a Greek word. / But Voſſius might think, that there was ſome connection between them, when almoſt all the writers of antiquity place the Gorgons nearly at leaſt in the ſame ſituation in which Hanno ſays that he diſcovered the Gorillæ.
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Proceeding to the chapter which treats of the ‘traditions reſpecting the iſands of the Atlantic,’ adjacent to the coaſts juſt examined, we may remark, that, at the extremity of Hanno’s expedition, he mentions the Gorillæ, and tells us, that he chiefly ſaw females, who fought with fury; that he killed three of them, and carried their ſkins, covered with hair, back to Carthage. Theſe female Gorillæ are ſuppoſed to be the Gorgons of antiquity; the iſland of the Gorillæ, the Gorgades, and the Gorgons, from the authority of Xenophon of Lampſacus, quoted by Pliny, are conſidered as the ſame.
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These monsters whom they call Gorillæ, and who seem evidently to have been orang-outangs, ran off on their approach, climbed rocks, and threw down stones on their pursuers; yet three females were caught, and their skins carried to Carthage. At length, the coast becoming desolate, and no longer affording either provisions or water, it was found necessary to return. / How far this voyage extended, and what proportion of the African coast it surveyed, has been the subject of long and learned controversy. The only two disputants who now appear on the field are Major Rennel and M. Gosselin: the former believes that Hanno passed Sierra Leone, and that the island and bay of the Gorillæ were Sherbro’ Island and Sound; while the other terminates the voyage on the frontier of Morocco, at the entrance of the river Nun.
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Hanno’s account of the gorillæ has been confused with fabulous stories of Gorgons; but even this circumstance is confirmatory of the truth of his progress. […] Hanno’s gorillæ were found in an island; the males could not be killed, but three females were slain and their skins were exhibited when the expedition returned to Carthage.
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