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here, the inhahitants of which live on the eggs of birds 

 and oats ; and others again upon which human beings 

 are produced witli the feet of horses, thence called Hippo- 

 podes. Some other islands are also mentioned as those of 

 tlie Panotii, the people of which have ears of such extra- 

 ordinary size as to cover the rest of the body, which is 

 otherwise left naked. 



Leaving these however, we come to the nation of the In- 

 gaevones\ the first in Grermany ; at which we begin to have 

 some information upon which more implicit reliance can be 

 placed. In their country is an immense mountain called 

 Sevo^, not less than those of the Eiphaean range, and which 

 forms an immense gulf along the shore as far as the Promon- 

 tory of the Cimbri. This gulf, which has the name of the 

 ' Codanian,' is filled with islands ; the most famous among 

 which is Scandinavia^, of a magnitude as yet unascertained : 

 the only portion of it at all known is inhabited by the nation 

 of the Hilleviones, who dwell in 500 villages, and call it a 

 second world: it is generally supposed that the island of 



has it, the Panotii, "all-ears") wore their hair very short, from which 

 circumstance their ears appeared to be of a larger size than usual. 



^ Tacitus spesks of three great groups of the German tribes, the In- 

 gsevones forming the first thereof, and consisting of those wliieh dwelt on 

 the margin of the ocean, the Hermiones in the interior, and the Istffivones 

 in the east and south of Germany. We shall presently find that PHny 

 adds two groups, the Vandih as the foiu-th, and the Peucini and Bastemse 

 as the fifth. This classification however is thought to originate in a mis- 

 take, for Zeuss has satisfactorily shown that the Vandili belonged to the 

 Hermiones, and that Peucini and Basteruce are only names of individual 

 tribes and not of groups of tribes. 



2 Bi'otier and other geographers are of opinion that by this name the 

 chain of the Doffrefeld mountains is meant ; but this cannot be tlie case 

 if we suppose with Parisot tliat Pliny here returns soutli from the Scan- 

 dinavian islands and takes his departure from Cape Rutt in the territory 

 of the Ingsevoncs. Still, it is quite impossible to say what mountains he 

 would designate under the name of Sevo. Parisot sugg(>sts that it is a form 

 of the compound word " seevohner," " inhabitants of (lie sea," and that it 

 is a general name for tlie elevated lands along the margin of the sea-shore. 



3 Parisot supposes that under this name the isle of Funen is meant, 

 but it is more generally thought that Norway and Sweden are thus de- 

 signated, as that peninsida was generally looked upon as an island by the 

 ancients. The Codanian Gulf was the sea to the east of the Cimbrian 

 Chersonesus or Jutland, filled with the islands which belong to the modem 

 kingdom of Denmark. It was therefore the southern part of the Baltic. 



