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its breadth 300 ; he also thinks that the breadth of Hibernia 

 is the same, but that its length is less by 200 miles. This 

 last island is situate beyond Britannia, the passage across 

 being the shortest from the territory of the Silures\ a distance 

 of thirty miles. Of the remaining islands none is said to 

 have a greater circumference than 125 miles. Among these 

 there are the Orcades", forty in number, and situate within 

 a short distance of each other, the seven islands called Ac- 

 modce^, the HtTbudes, thirty in number, and, between Hi- 

 bernia and Britannia, the islands of Mona'*,Monapia^,Eicina®, 

 Vectis^ Limnus^, and Andros'. Below it are the islands 

 called Samnis and Axantos'", and opposite, scattered in the 

 German Sea, are those known as the Grlsesarise^^, but which 



^ The people of South Wales. 



' The Orkney islands Tvere included under this name. Pomponius 

 Mela and Ptolemy make them but tliirty in number, while Sohnus Qxes 

 their number at three only. 



3 Also called ^modse or Hsemodse, most probably the islands now 

 known as the Shetlands. Camden however and the older antiquarians 

 refer the Hsemodse to the Baltic sea, considering them ditferent from the 

 Acmoda; here mentioned, wliile Salmasius on the other hand considers the 

 Acmodae or Hsemodse and the Hebrides as identical. Parisot remarks 

 that off the West Cape of the Isle of Skye and the Isle of North Uist, 

 the nearest of the Het rides to the Shetland islands, there is a vast gulf 

 filled with islands, which still bears the name of Mamaddy or ISIaddy, 

 from which the Grreeks may have easily derived the words At MaSdaly 

 whence the Latin Hsemodse. 



^ The Isle of Anglesea. ^ Most probably the Isle of Man. 



^ Camden and Gosselin (JRecJi. stir la Geogr. des Anciens) consider 

 that under this name is meant the island of Rackhn, situate near the 

 north-eastern extremity of Ireland. A Ricina is spoken of by Ptolemy, 

 but that island is one of the Hebrides. 



7 This Vectis is considered by Gossehn to be the same as the small 

 island of White-Horn, situate at the entrance of the Bay of Wigtown in 

 Scotland. It must not be confounded with the more southern Vectis, or 

 Isle of Wight. 



^ According to Gosselin this is the island of Dalkey, at the entrance of 

 Dubhn Bay. 



3 Camden thinks that this is the same as Bardsey Island, at the south 

 of the island of Anglesea, wlule Manncrt and Gosselin tliink that it is 

 the island of Lambay. 



^^ Accorchng to Brotier these islands belong to the coast of Britaimy, 

 being the modem isles of Sian and Ushant. 



^' As already mentioned, he probably sj^eaks of the islands of (Eland 

 and Gothl md, and Amelund, called Au>teravia or Actania, in which 

 glcBsum or amber was found by the liomun eoldiers. Sec \). i^k 



