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explains how the classical ancients came so early to be 

 acquainted with the amber coast of the north ; for, in 

 the third century, B. C., Pythias, a Grecian traveller, 

 and Divo, a Bithynian, at a later date, visited the pre- 

 sent provinces of Pomerania and Prussia ; and though 

 the work of the first named is lost, quotations remain 

 sufficiently to establish the attention his narrative must 

 have deserved.* 



THE ETRUSCANS. 



THERE was, beside the two nations of Upper Italy 

 here noticed, a people more ancient than either, having 

 in the language it spoke roots of Teutonic still more 

 abundant ; which, although it was believed to be 

 derived from two widely separated sources, still bore 

 the same import in the designations of both their 

 names. One, the Rasenic, it was asserted, had posses- 

 sion of the lower Tridentine Alps, when the other (the 

 Tyrhenic), came up by sea, it is said from Tyrra in 



Lydia, and landing at the mouth of the Po, built Adria 



* 



* Pythias, quoted by Pliny, flourished about 330 B.C. 

 He visited the amber coast, and notices the Guttones on 

 the Montonomon estuary (the Frische Nahrung), at one 

 day's journey from the island Abalus (the present Pal- 

 meniken), where amber was cast up by the sea. Divo is 

 mentioned as having visited the Baltic in the reign of 

 Augustus ; he is quoted by Jaroslaw, domprobst of Ploezk. 

 There is in Spon even an attempt to figure Hyperborean 

 hunters, one riding a stag (rein-deer) being shown gallop- 

 ing towards a net. The work of art is from a bas-relief, 

 found at Etruscan Anxur. 



