Chap. 28.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 345 



soldiers, from their amber ; but by the barbarians they are 

 kuown as Austeravia and Actania. 



CHAP. 28. — GEEMANT. 



The whole of the shores of this sea as far as the Scaldis\ 

 a river of G-ermany, is inhabited by nations, the dimensions 

 of whose respective territories it is quite impossible to state, 

 so immensely do the authors differ who have touched upon 

 this subject. The Greek \\Titers and some of our own 

 countrymen have stated the coast of Germany to be 2500 

 miles in extent, while Agrippa, comprising Ehaetia and Nori- 

 cum in his estimate, makes the length to be 686' miles, and 

 the breadth 148 ^ (14.) The breadth of Ehaetia alone how- 

 ever very nearly exceeds that number of miles, and indeed 

 we ought to state that it was only subjugated at about the 

 period of the death of that general ; while as for Germany, 

 the whole of it was not thoroughly known to us for many 

 years after his time. If I may be allowed to form a conjec- 

 ture, the margin of the coast will be found to be not far short 

 of the estimate of tlie Greek writers, while the distance in a 

 straight line wiU nearly correspond with that mentioned by 

 Agrippa. 



There are five German races ; the Vandili^, parts of whom 



figuratively " amber." Probably (Eland and Gotliland. They will be 

 found again mentioned ia the Thirtieth Chapter of the present Book. 

 See p. 351. ^ Now the Scheldt. 



2 In a straight line, of course. Parisot is of opinion that in forming 

 this estimate Agrippa began at the angle formed by the river Piave in 

 lat. 46° 4', measuring thence to Cape Rubeas (now Rutt) in lat. 54° 25'. 

 This would give 8° 21', to wliicli, if we add some twenty leagues for obU- 

 qviity or diti'erence of longitude, the total would make exactly the distance 

 here mentioned. 



3 As Parisot remarks, it is totally impossible to conceive the source 

 of such an erroneous conclusion as this. Some readings make the amount 

 248, others 268. 



^ As already mentioned, Zeuss has satisfactorily 8ho^vn that the Van- 

 diU or VindUi properly belonged to the llermiones. Tacitus mentions 

 but three groups of the German nations ; the Inga;vones on the ocean, 

 the Henniones in the interior, and the Istpcvones in tlie east and south 

 of Germany. The VandiU, a Gothic race, dwelt originally on the northern 

 coast of Germany, but afterwards settled north of the Marcomanni on the 



