165, 166, 514, 515.)] [Footnote 42: In the system or romance of Mr.Bailly, (Lettres sur les Sciences et sur l'Atlantide, tom.i.p.

249--256, tom.ii.p.

114--139,) the phoenix of the Edda, and the annual death and revival of Adonis and Osiris, are the allegorical symbols of the absence and return of the sun in the Arctic regions.

This ingenious writer is a worthy disciple of the great Buffon; nor is it easy for the coldest reason to withstand the magic of their philosophy.] [Footnote 43: Says Procopius.

At present a rude Manicheism (generous enough) prevails among the Samoyedes in Greenland and in Lapland, (Hist.
des Voyages, tom.xviii.p.508, 509, tom.xix.p.105, 106, 527, 528;) yet, according to Orotius Samojutae coelum atque astra adorant, numina haud aliis iniquiora, (de Rebus Belgicis, l.iv.p.338, folio edition) a sentence which Tacitus would not have disowned.] The life of Theodoric represents the rare and meritorious example of a Barbarian, who sheathed his sword in the pride of victory and the vigor of his age.