In the multivolume work «Natural history» except islands of Blissful Pliny the Senior names also other island groups lying at northwest coast of Africa. We meet Gesneridy already known to us. Sometimes them identify with a part of the Canary archipelago, and it is frequent with islands of cape Verde. A site of fencings where there is no time, as he said, lived горгоны — monstrous beings with a look transforming all live in stone, — to establish are at a loss more often, however sometimes and these islands connect with the Canary archipelago.
Nearby to islands of Blissful Pliny the Senior has Purpurarii. This one more of names of Canary Islands. Some researchers believe that Purpurarii — not that other, as east group of islands of the Canary archipelago, while Blissful - its western part. Some bases for similar identification are given by a wide circulation in those days on east islands of archipelago of a lichen орсель (Roccella tlnclorla) — the vegetative dye used for colouring of fabrics.
But the antiquity does not limit "search" of blissful islands. Representations about them are traced at the various people and during more later time. Avallon the Celtic mythology — a next world located, as a rule, on far western islands where the wonderful apples granting immortality grow.