Chap. 29.] ACCOUNT OF COTJKTEIES, ETC. 349 



CHAP. 29. (15.) — NINETY-SIX ISLANDS OF THE GALLIC OCEAN. 



In the Ehine itself, nearly 100 miles in length, is the 

 most famous island^ of the Bata^d and the Canniuefates, as 

 also other islands of the I'risii", the Chauei, tlie Frisia- 

 bones^, the Sturii"', and the Marsaeii, which lie between He- 

 lium' and Flevum^. These are the names of tlie moutha 



Schwarzwald, Odenwald, Spcssart, Ehon, Tliiiringer Wald, the Hartz 

 mountain (which seems in a great measiire to have retained the ancient 

 name), Raube Alp, Steigerwald, Ficlitelgcbirge, Erzgcbirge, and Riesen- 

 gebirge. At a later period when the mountains of Germany had become 

 better known, the name was apphed to the more limited range extending 

 around Bohemia, and through Moravia into Hvmgary. 



^ This island appears to have been formed by the bifurcation of the 

 Ehine, the northern branch of which enters the sea at Katwj^ck, a few 

 miles north of Leyden, by the Waal and the com'se of the Maas, after it has 

 received the Waal, and by the sea. The Waal or Vahahs seems to have 

 undergone considerable changes, and the place of its junction with the 

 Maas may have varied. Phny makes the island nearly 100 miles in length, 

 wliich is about the distance fi'om the fort of Schenkenschanz, where the 

 first separation of the Ehine takes place, to the mouth of the Maas. The 

 name of Batavia was no doubt the genuine name, which is stiU preserved 

 in Betuwe, the name of a district at the bifiu-cation of the Ehine and the 

 Waal. The Canninefates, a people of the same race as the Batavi, also 

 occupied the island, and as the Batavi seem to have been in the eastern 

 part, it is supposed that the Canniuefates occupied the western. They 

 were subdued by Tiberius in the reign of Augustus. 



2 The Frisii or Frisones were one of the great tribes of north-western 

 Germany, properly belonging to the group of the Inga?vones. They in- 

 habited the covmtry about Lake Flevo and other lakes, between the Ehine 

 and the Ems, so as to be bounded on the south by the Bructeri, and on 

 the east by the Chauei. Tacitus distinguishes between the Frisii Ma- 

 jorcs and Minorcs, and it is supposed tliat the latter dwelt on the east of 

 the canal of Drusus in the north of Holland, and the former between the 

 rivers Flevus and Amisia, that is, in the coimtiy which stnU bears the 

 name of Friesland. The Chauei have been previously mentioned. 



3 The Frisiabones or Frisfcvones are again mentioned m C. 31 of the 

 present Book as a people of Gaul. In what locality they dwelt has not 

 been ascertained by historians. 



4 The Sturii are supposed to liave inhabited the modem South IIoDand, 

 while the IMarsacii probably inhabited the island which tlie Meuso fonna 

 at its junction with the Eliine, at the ntodern Dortn^cht in Zealand. 



* Supposed to be the site of the modem fortress of Briel, situate at 

 the mouth of the Meuse. 



' Probably the same as the modem Ylieland (thus partly retaining its 

 ancient name), an island north of the Texel. The more ancient writers 

 speak of two main arms, into which the Ehine was divided on entering 



