Azores

P. L. 4. 592. (See also Atlantic.) A group of islands in the Atlantic, eight hundred miles west They were made prominent in English history by of Portugal. the ” Island Voyage,” an expedition undertaken by the Earl of E ex in 1597. (Pilgrimes 4. 1935.) Milton uses them as a figure Compare a similar use for the extreme west, where the sun sets. of the Cape Verde Islands in P. L. 8. 631, and of the “Ocean Cf. Comus 97, lies,” which may be the Azores, in P. L. 4. 354. which is an obvious imitation of the cla ics, not modified by a knowledge of modern geography, as are the pa ages in P. L. Azotus. See Ashdod. 56