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has not been ascertained, and so far as is known, 

 only part of it is inhabited, its natives being the 

 Hilleviones, who dwell in 500 villages, and call their 

 island a second world. Aeningia is thought to be 

 equally big. Some authorities report that these 

 regions as far as the river Vistula are inhabited by 

 the Sarmati, Venedi, Sciri and Hirri, and that there 

 i:i; a gulf named Cyhpenus, with the island of Latris 

 at its mouth, and then another gulf, that of Lagnus, 

 at which is the frontier of the Cimbri. The Cimbrian 

 promontory projects a long way into the sea, forming 

 a peninsula called Tastris." Then there are twenty- 

 three islands known to the armed forces of Rome ; 

 the most noteworthy of these are Burcana,'' called 

 by our people Bean Island from the quantity of wild 

 beans growing there, and the island which by the 

 soldiery is called Glass Island from its amber, but 

 by the barbarians Austeravia, and also Actania. 



The whole of the sea-coast as far as the German river Popuiation 

 Scheldt is inhabited by races the extent of whose terri- Europe. 

 tories it is impossible to state, so unhmited is the dis- 

 agreement among the writers who report about them. 

 The Greek writei-s and some of our own have given 

 the coast of Germany as measuring 2500 miles, 

 while Agrippa makes the length of Germany includ- 

 ing Raetia and Noricum 686 miles and the breadth 

 248 miles, (XIV.) whereas the breadth of Raetia alone 

 almost excccds that figure ; though to be sure it was 

 only conquered about the time of Agrippa's death — 

 for Germany v/as expkired many years after, and that 

 not fully. If one may be allowed to conjecture, the 

 coast will be found to be not much shorter than the 

 Greek idea of it and the length given by Agrippa. 



There are five Gerrnan races : the Vandals, who aermany, 



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