344 plint's nattjeal histoet. [Book IV. 



Eningia* is of not less magnitude. Some writers state that 

 tliese regions, as far as the river Vistula, are inhabited by the 

 Sarmp-ti, the Venedi^, the Sciri, and the Hirri^, and that there 

 is a gulf there known by the name of Cylipenus^, at the mouth 

 of which is the island of Latris, after which comes another 

 gulf, that of Lagnus, which borders on the Cimbri. The 

 Cimbrian Promontory, running out into the sea for a great 

 distance, forms a peninsula which bears the name of Cartris^. 

 Passing this coast, there are three and twenty islands which 

 have been made known by the Eoman arms^: the most 

 famous of which is Burcana^, called by our people Fabaria, 

 from the resemblance borne ^ by a fruit which grows there 

 spontaneously. There are those also called Glaesaria** by our 



* By Eningia Hardouin thinks that the coxmtry of modem Finland is 

 meant. Poinsinet thinks that xrnder the name are included Ingria, Li- 

 vonia, and Cotirland ; while Parisot seems inclined to be of opinion that 

 under this name the island of Zealand is meant, a village of which, about 

 three-fourths of a league firom the western coast, according to him, still 

 bears the name of Heininge. 



2 Parisot is of opinion that the Venedi, also called Vinidse and Vin- 

 dni, were of Sclavish origin, and situate on the shores of the Baltic. He 

 remarks that this people, in the fifth century, founded in Pomerania, when 

 quitted by the Goths, a kingdom, the chiefs of which styled themselves 

 the Konjucs of Vinland. Their name is also to be found in Venden, a 

 Russian town in the government of Riga, in Windenbm'g in Courland, and 

 in Wenden in the circle of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin. 



* Parisot remarks that these two peoples were probably only tribes 

 of the Venedi. 



* Parisot feels convinced that Pliny is speaking here of the Gulf of 

 Travemunde, the island of Femeren, and then of the gulf which extends 

 from that island to Kiel, where the Eider separates Holstein from Jut- 

 land. On the other hand, Hardouin thinks that by the Gulf of Cylipe- 

 nus the Gulf of Riga is meant, and that Latris is the modem island of 

 Oesel. But, as Parisot justly remarks, to put this construction on Pliny's 

 language is to invert the order in which he has hitherto proceeded, evi- 

 dently from east to west. 



5 The modem Cape of Skagen on the north of Jutland. 

 8 When Drusus held the command in Germany, as we learn from 

 Strabo, B. vii. 



7 It is generally agreed that this is the modem island of Borkhum, at 

 the mouth of the river Amaiius or Ems. 



8 To a bean, from which (faba) the island had its name of Fabaria. 

 In confirmation of this Hardouin states, that in his time there was a 

 tower still standing therewhich was called by the natives Set boon huys^ 

 " the bean house." 



' From the word gles or glas^ which primarily means ' glass,' and then 



