BOOK IV. XIII. 94-96 



Mountains " must coast to the left along the sliore of 

 the northern ocean until we reach Cadiz. In this 

 direction a number of islands ^ are reported to exist 

 that have no names, but according to the account of 

 Timaeus there is one named Baunonia,<^ ly^^e? ^^ 

 Scythia, at a distance of a day's voyage from the 

 coast, on the beach of which in spring time amber is 

 cast up by the waves. The rest of thcse coasts are 

 only known in detail by reports of doubtful authority. 

 To the north is the ocean ; beyond the river Para- 

 panisus where it washes the coast of Scythia Heca- 

 taeus calls it the Amalchian Sea, a name that in the 

 language of the natives means ' frozen ' ; Philemon 

 says that the Cimbrian name for it is Morimarusa 

 (that is, ' Dead Sea ') from the Parapanisus to Cape 

 Rusbeae, and from that point onward the Cronian 

 Sea. Xenophon of Lampsacus reports that three 

 days' sail from the Scythian coast there is an island 

 of enormous size called Balcia ; Pytheas gives its name 

 as Basiha. Also some islands called the Oeonae are 

 reported of which the inhabitants hve on birds' 

 eggs and oats. and others on which people are born 

 with horses' feet, which gives them their Greek 

 name ; there are others called the All-ears Islands in 

 which the natives have very large ears covering the 

 whole of their bodies, which are otherwise left naked. 

 From this point more definite information begins 

 to open up, beginning with the race of the Inguaeones, 

 the first that we come to in Gcrmany. Here there 

 is an enormous mountain, the Saevo, as big as those 

 of the Ripacan range, which forms an enormous 

 bay reaching to the Cimbrian promontory ; it is 

 named the Codanian Gulf, and is studded witli islands. 

 The most famous of these is Scandinavia ; its size 



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