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Europe may be spoken of; and passing the Riphaean Moun- 

 tains, we must proceed along the Shore of the Northern 

 Ocean to the left, until we come to Gades. In which 

 Tract there are reported to be very many Islands without 

 Names, of which, by the Report of Tim&us, there is one be- 

 fore Scythia called Bannomanna, distant from Scythia one 

 Day's Sailing, into which, in the Time of Spring, Amber is 

 cast up by the Waves. The other Coasts are of uncertain 

 Report. The North Ocean from the River Paropamisus, 

 where it washeth Scythia, Hecatceus nameth Amalchium, 

 which Word, in the language of that Nation, signifieth 

 Frozen. Philemon writeth, that the Cimbrians call it Mori- 

 marusa, that is Mortuum Mare [the Dead Sea], even as far 

 as to the Promontory Rubeae: then beyond, Cronium. 

 Xenophon Lampsacenus saith, That in three Days' sailing 

 from the Scythian Coast there is the Island Baltia, of ex- 

 ceeding magnitude. The same doth Pythias name Basilia. 

 There are reported the Isles Oonae, wherein the Inhabitants 

 live on Birds' Eggs and Oats. Others also, wherein men 

 are born with the Feet of Horses, and called Hippopodes. 

 Others of the Panoti 1 , who, being otherwise naked, have 

 immensely great Ears that cover their whole Bodies. Then 

 begins a clearer Report to open from the Nation of the 

 Ingevoni, the first of the Germans in those Parts. There is 

 the exceeding great Mountain Sevo, not inferior to the high 

 Crags of Riphaeus, which maketh a very large Gulf, as far 

 as to the Cimbrians' Promontory, called Codanus, and it is 

 full of Islands, of which the most celebrated is Scandinavia, 

 the Magnitude whereof is not yet discovered. A Part 

 only thereof, as much as is known, the Nation of Helle- 

 viones inhabiteth, in 500 Villages: and they call it a second 

 Worldj and as it is thought Enigia is not less. Some say, 

 that these Parts, as far as to the River Vistula, are in- 

 habited by the Sarmati, Veneti, Scyri, and Hirri : also that 



1 Some editions read Fanesii, but Panotii seems the more correct ; for 

 as the Oonae were so called in consequence of their living on eggs, and the 

 Hippopodes because they had horses' feet, so the Panoti derived their 

 name from having immensely great ears that covered their whole bodies. 



