Germany. 
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Division of 
the subject. 
Ancient 
Germany. 
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Genmanvy is divided among such a number of sove- 
reigns native and fone and its natural boundaries 
are so obscurely marked, that it is difficult, and at first 
sight seems improper, to describe it as a single country. 
But when it is considered, that, in respect to name, lan- 
guage, and inhabitants, it sa unity of charac- 
ter, from which it derives a * a solid c' oy = occu- 
a separate place amon: e divisions urope, 
oa thay aWhoush its lila limits are not easily as- 
certained, the great mass of which it is composed is suf- 
ficiently identified, we trust we shall:be justified in ma- 
king it the subject of a separate though short article. 
In order, however, that this article may not repeat or 
anticipate what the reader will naturally look for under 
the heads of Austria, Bayarta, Hanover, Prussta, 
Saxony, and the other states of Germany, we shall con- 
. fine it to the three following points: I. A brief descrip- 
tion of ancient Germany, and of the manners, &c. of. 
its inhabitants ; IT. The principal revolutions and events 
of the Germanic empire, as separate and distinguished 
from the respective histories of Austria, Prussia, &c. ; 
and lastly, an outline of the statistics of Germany. 
I. Ancient Germany was divided on the west by the 
Rhine, from the Gallic provinces of the Roman empire; 
and on the south by the Danube, from the Hlyrian pro- 
vinces of the same empire. It was divided and pro- 
tected from Dacia or Hungary, by-a ridge of hills call- 
ed the Carpathian mountains, which rose from the Da- 
nube. The Hercynian Forest, at that time reckoned 
impenetrable, and a frozen ocean, described by thean- 
cients as lying beyond the Baltic, if by it they did not 
mean the Baltic itself, were the limits of Germany on 
the north and north-west. On the east the boundary 
was still more faintly marked, or rather, it was fre- 
quently varying and confounded; by the mixture of the 
wavering and confederate tribes of the Germans and 
Sarmatians. From this description of the boundaries 
of ancient Germany, it will be seen, that, Bai ceil 
of the province westward of the Rhine, which appears 
to haye been a colony of Germans settled within the’ 
_limits of Gaul, it extended itself over a third part of Eu- 
Tribes that 
rope. 
Our most accurate, full, and important information 
inhabited it, respecting ancient Germany, is derived from Tacitus. 
This author first mentions: two colonies, the Helvetii 
and Boii, which had returned from Gaul into Germany. 
The Vangiones he describes _as* living on the west bide 
of the Rhine ; and the, Batavi, in the isle formed by the 
outlets of that river. Beyond the people between the 
head of the Danube and the Rhine, he places the Catti ;- 
and further up on the Rhine, the Usipii, &e.; next the 
Bructeri; behind’ them the Dulgubini; and in front 
the Frisii, After this he mentions,. that the coast of 
Germany turns to the north, which it dées at Frieze- 
land and Groningen. This circumstance. sufficiently 
determines the positions of the tribes hitherto mention- 
ed. Next.he mentions the Chauci ; then the Cherussi 
and Fosi; the remains of the Cimbri, so formidable and. 
numerous hefore the time of Tacitus, but when he wrote’ 
near’ 
the mouth of the Elbe. © The Stevi, divided into brat f 
wall 
parva civilas, seem to have. inhabited the cou: 
tribes, occupied the greatest ‘part of Germany, ‘viz 
from the Danube to the ocean, south and north 3 and 
from the Elbé to the Vistula, west and east. The first 
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tribe were the Semnones, who it 
then the Longobardi, in Lunenber 
follow next, who seem’ to’ Have’ oceupi 
of Jutland. Among these were thé Angli. 
oceeded tothe utmost north of the west p 
pei Tacitus proceeds to the n of 
along the banks of the Danube? the principal f 
were the Hermundurii ; then the’ Narisci about 
Rhine to the head ‘of 
wi ‘settled 
ing from 
a he chain ri di 
which were the Lygii, consisting of” 
They inhabited whe pred sila 
the Gotthones, at the mouth of the’V ; next fra 
thence on’ the oceati, yer ea Rugen; th 
the Lemovii, who appear to\have dwelt to the west of - 
the Rugii, and hence probably near Lubec. After this. 
Tacitus proceeds to'the Suiones, who, by most geogra. 
phers, are considered as the Swedes, but, as Pinkerton 
contends, Ske ae eee ee Danish 
islands in the Baltic.” After the Suiones, Tacitus passe: 
tothe Esti, whom he describes as situated ’on th 
hand, as you sail up the Suevicum Mare, or probab 
the penitisula’ beyond the Phe | 
tones seem’ to’ have been 
permitted to marty early in life the mor 
person’s’ Kinsmen’ and relations’ by mariage” 
more comfortable aid ‘respé was his old ige: it 
was no advantage, but 1 “mist 
and'disgrace, to be’ ch : 
ther’s side, regarded” his ne} 
tion as their tather: oe y 
wd 
Thaler 
GY Rignvesly aaverd 
j and i 
I cities, i all : 
‘ spn “while 
were engaged in wa’ 
: y had fot’even 
wid confected vilagee, but eset manne 
dwelling where it suited his convenience, or pleased 
his fancy. Neither stones, nor bricks, nor tiles, “ 
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