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REPLY1850

Julin, the drowned

By V. (Balgravia)

I am sorry I did not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate of *Julin*, which DR. BELL has been so good as to notice. This is partly the printer's fault. I spoke of the *drowned*, not the *doomed* city. The *drowning* was what I desired some account of. "A flourishing emporium of commerce", extant in 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "submerged ruins," does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity. I knew of the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence of a legend (*legendum*, something to…

Topics: Historical Customs, Legend, Shipwrecks