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The first of these is Pizigani's , containing "Ysolae dictae Fortunatae," and the other that of Ortelius , containing "S. Brandain." XIII. HY-BRASAIL "The people of Aran, with characteristic enthusiasm, fancy, that at certain periods, they see Hy-Brasail, elevated far to the west in their watery horizon.
The Hy-Brasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atlantis of Plato; who, in his 'Timaeus, says that that island was totally swallowed up by a prodigious earthquake." In Pizigani's map there appear three islands of this name, two off the Azores and one off Ireland.
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