It was the vague belief of many nations that the abodes of the blest lay somewhere beyond it – in the “other world,” a region half earthly, half heavenly, whence the spirits of the departed could not cross the water to return; – and so they were constantly imagining excursions made by favored mortals to enchanted islands. To add to the confusion, actual islands in the Atlantic were sometimes discovered and actually lost again, a, for instance, the Canaries, which were reached and called the Fortunate Isles a little before the Christian era, and were then lost to sight for thirteen centuries before.
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