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its breadth 300 ; lie also thinks that the breadth of Hibemia 

 is the same, but that its length is less by 200 miles. This 

 last island is situate beyond Britannia, the passage across 

 being the shortest from the territory of the Silures', a distance 

 of thirty miles. Of the remaining islands none is said to 

 have a greater circumlerence than 125 miles. Among these 

 there are the Orcades', forty in number, and situate within 

 a short distance of each other, the seven islands called Ac- 

 modae^, the Haebudes, thirty in number, and, between Hi- 

 bemia and Britannia, the islands of Mona'',Monapia*,Kicina*, 

 Vectis', Limnus^, and Andros'. Below it are the islands 

 called Samnis and Axantos'", and opposite, scattered in the 

 German Sea, are those known as the Glaesariae", but which* 



1 The people of South Wales. 



* The Orkney islands were included under this name. Pomponius 

 Mela and Ptolemy make them but thirty in nmnber, while Solinus fixes 

 their number at three only. 



* Also called jEmodse or Haemoda?, most probably the islands now 

 kno-wn as the Shetlands. Camden however and the older antiquarians 

 refer the Hsemodae to the Baltic sea, considering them different from the 

 Acmodse here mentioned, while Salmasius on the other hand considers the 

 Acmodfle or Heemodee and the Hebrides as identical. Parisot remarks 

 that off the West Cape of the Isle of Skye and the Isle of North Uist, 

 the nearest of the Hebrides to the Shetkmd islands, there is a vast gulf 

 filled with islands, which still bears the name of Mamaddy or Maddy, 

 from wliich the Greeks may have easily derived the words At MaSdai, 

 whence the Latin Hsemodse. 



* The Isle of Anglesea. • Most probably the Isle of Man. 



^ Camden and Gosselin (Rech. sur la Geogr. des Anciens) consider 

 that under this name is meant the island of Racklin, situata near the 

 north-eastern extremity of Ireland. A Eicina is spoken of by Ptolemy, 

 but that island is one of the Hebrides. 



7 This Yectis is considered by Gosselin to be the same as the small 

 island of White-Horn, situate at the entrance of the Bay of Wigtown in 

 Scotland. It must not be confounded with the more southern Yectis, or 

 Isle of Wight. 



^ According to QosseHn this is the island of Dalkey, at the entrance of 

 Dublin Bay. 



^ Camden thinks that this is the same as Bardsey Island, at the south 

 of the island of Anglesea, while Mannert and Gosselin think that it is 

 the island of Lambay. 



^° According to Brotier these islands belong to the coast of Britanny, 

 being the modem isles of Sian and Ushant. 



11 As already mentioned, he probably speaks of the islands of CEland 

 and Gotliland, and Ameland, called Austeravia or Actania, in which 

 glcBSum or amber was found by the Roman soldiers. See p. 344 



