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The phenomenon still continues, though the modern inhabitants are too ignorant and unskilful to profit by it. On the mainland Aradus possessed a considerable tract, and had a number of cities subject to her. Of these Strabo enumerates six, viz. Paltos, Balanea, Carnus which he calls the naval station of Aradus Enydra, Marathus, and Simyra. Marathus was the most important of these.
Over Etive and through the Benderloch, and through Appin and even up to Glencoe, by some strange spasm of physique for she was frail and famished the barefooted old cailleach of Carnus came after us, a bird of battle, croaking in a horrible merriment over our operations. The Dark Dame we called her.
He wished he could join them in their English play, or better far, that he might take them to the eagle's nest in Stob Bhan, or the badgers' hamlet in Blaranbui, or show them his skill to fetch the deer at a call, in the rutting time, from the mud-wallows above Carnus.
M. Gray, professor at the seminary of Rodez, presented us some years ago with the following letter from the Abbe Carnus, upon the aerial voyage which he undertook, August 6th, 1784:
He called Sextonus, of Lybia he was king, of Turkey duke; he sent after Evander, who from Babylon was come there; he called to the senators Bal, Catel, and Carnus, these were all of royal birth, and these were all chosen, -promptly to ride, and to liberate Petreius. Anon as it was even forth they marched; twelve knights them led of the people that were exceeding wary, and knew the ways.
"I'll tell you that," said he, bitterly; but as he began, some wildfowl rose in a startled flight to our right and whirred across the sky. "There's some one coming," said M'Iver; "let us keep close together." From where the wildfowl rose, the Dame Dubh, as we called the old woman of Carnus, came in our direction, half-running, half-walking through the snow.
So the Macarthurs, some of them back from their flight before Antrim and Athole, were throng bearing stone from the river and turf from the brae, and setting up those homes of the poor, that have this advantage over the homes of the wealthy, that they are so easily replaced. In this same Carnus, in later years, I have made a meal that showed curiously the resource of its people.
It was not, however, till we had got down Glenaora as far as Carnus that we found either kindness or conversation.
Simyra appears as "Zimirra" in the Assyrian inscriptions, where it is connected with Arka, which was not far distant. The other towns Paltos, Balanea, Carnus, and Enydra were in the more northern portion of the plain, as was also Antaradus, now Tortosa, where there are considerable remains, but of a date long subsequent to the time of Phoenician ascendancy.
The adventurers were cordially welcomed by the ecclesiastics and the magistrates of the place, and after a time they, with their balloon, were carried back on men's shoulders to Dijon. Experiment in Montgolfiers Roziers and Proust The Duke of Chartres The Comte d'Artois Voyage of the Abbe Carnus to Rodez.
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