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here, the inhabitants of which live on the eggs of birds 

 and oats; and others again upon which human beings 

 are produced with the feet of horses, thence called Hippo- 

 podes. Some other islands are also mentioned as those of 

 tlie Panotii, the people of which have ears of such extra- 

 ordinary size as to cover the rest of the body, which is 

 otherwise left naked. 



Leaving these however, we come to the nation of tlie In- 

 gflBvones^ the first in Germany ; at which we begin to have 

 some information upon which more implicit reliance can be 

 placed. In their country is an immense mountain called 

 Sevo^, not less than those of the Riphaean range, and which 

 forms an immense gulf along the shore as far as the Promon- 

 tory of the Cimbri. This gulf, which has the name of the 

 * Codauian,' is filled with islands ; the most famous among 

 which is Scandinavia', of a magnitude as vet unascertained : 

 the only portion of it at all known is inhabited by the nation 

 of the Hilleviones, who dwell in 500 villages, and call it a 

 second world: it is generally supposed that the island of 



has it, the Panotii, " all*ean") wore their hair very short, firom which 

 circumstance their ears appeared to be of a larger size than usual. 



* Tacitu3 speaks of three great groups of the German tribes, the In- 

 gsevones forming the first thereof, and consisting of those which dwelt on 

 the margin of the ocean, the Hermiones in the interior, and the Istsevones 

 in the east and south of Germany. We shall presently find that Pliny 

 adds two groups, the Vandili as the fourth, and the Peucini and Bastema 

 as the fifth. This classification however is thought to originate in a mis- 

 take, for Zeuss has satisfactorily shown that the Vandili belonged to the 

 Hermiones, and that Peucini and Bastemse are only names of individvial 

 tribes and not of groups of tribes. 



* Brotier and other geographers are of opinion that by this name the 

 chain of the Doffrefeld moimtains is meant ; but this cannot be the case 

 if we suppose with Parisot that Pliny here returns south from the Scan- 

 dinavian islands and takes his departure from Cape Butt in the territory 

 of the Ingsevones. Still, it is quite impossible to say what mountains he 

 would designate under the name of Sevo. Parisot suggests that it is a form 

 of the compound word " seevohner," " inhabitants of the sea," and that it 

 is a general name for the elevated lands along the margin of the sea-shore. 



3 Parisot supposes that under this name the isle of Fimen is meant, 

 but it is more generally thought that Norway and Sweden are thus de- 

 signated, as that peninsula was generally looked upon as an island by the 

 ancients. The Codanian G\ilf was the sea to the east of the Cimbriwi 

 Chersonesus or Jutland, filled with the islands which belong to the modem 

 kingdom of Denmark. It was therefore the southern part of the Baltic. 



