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include the Burgodiones, Variniiae, Charini and 

 Gutones ; the second race the Inguaeones, including 

 Cimbri, Teutoni and the tribes of the Chauci ; nearest 

 to the Rhine the Istiaeones, including the Sicambri ; 

 inland the Hermiones, including the Suebi, Her- 

 munduri, Chatti and Cherusci ; and the fifth section 

 the Peucini, and the Basternae who march with the 

 Dacians above mentioned. Notable rivers that flow 

 into the Ocean are the Guthalus," the Visculus or 

 Vistuhi, the Elbe, the Weser, the Ems, the Rhine and 

 the Meuse. In the interior stretches the Hercinian 

 range* of mountains, which is inferior to none in 

 grandeur. 



XV. In the Rhine itself, the most notable island is The Wdne. 

 that of the Batavi and Cannenefates, which is almost 



a hundred miles in length, and others are those 

 of the Frisii, Chauci, Frisiavones, Sturii and Marsacii, 

 which He between Briel and VHeland. The latter 

 give their names to the mouths into which the Rhine 

 divides, discharging itself on the north into the lakes 

 there and on the west into the river Meuse, while 

 at the middle mouth between these two it keeps a 

 small channel for its own name. 



XVI. Opposite to this region lies the island of iiritain. 

 Britain, famous in the Greek records ' and in our 



own ; it lies to the north-west, facing, across a 

 wide channel, Germany, Gaul and Spain, countries 

 which constitute by far the greater part of Europe. 

 It was itself named Albion, while all the islands about 

 which we shall soon briefly speak were called the 

 Britains. Its distance from Gesoriacum'^ on the coast 

 of the Morini tribe by the shortest passage is 50 

 miles.' Its circumference is reported by Pytheas and 

 Isidorus to measure 4875 miles ; nearly thirty years 



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