SACRED ISLES IN THE WEST, &C. 30i 



It is surrounded by the sea called Sarpi, Prita, or 

 clarified butter. 



The fifth dxvipa is called Crauncha, and Craunda, 

 which included Germany, France, and the Northern 

 parts of Italy. Crannclia is the same with Cronus, 

 confounded wi h Saturn by Western mytholo- 

 gis^s ; and the Baltic and Adriatic seas were, pro- 

 bably, called Cronan, from the dzvipa of Craimra. 

 It is surrounded by the Dadlii-Sdgara, or sea of 

 curds. 



The sixth dw^fpa is called Saca, and Sacum, and 

 includes the British isles. It is surrounded by the 

 sea of milk, or the white sea; Cshirabd^lii and 

 Dus;dluibd'/ii, Cshira-Sagara, or Cshira-Samudra, 

 Cshira-Salila, Cshiranidlii, Cshirarn'ava. It is call- 

 ed also Amrltdbd'hi, or sea of Amrita, synonymous 

 with Amalaci, from which they made Amalchium 

 in the AVest. It is called, also, Somas' aildbdlii, or 

 tlie sea of the mountain of the moon. 



The seventh dw'ipa is Piishcara or Ice-land, sur- 

 rounded by the Swdduda, "Swddudaca, Szvddajala, 

 Paifodlii, Tcijahd'hi, or the sea of fresh water : for 

 it was, also, the opinion of the ancients, that the 

 furthermost ocean was of fresh water : ScytJiicus 

 Occanus diilcisesf, says Pliny. 



The Western ocean is, in general, called Alalio- 

 ddbd'hi and Mahdrn'ava, or the great sea; and in 

 the Revac'ha/i'da, the Cshira-Samudi^a is said to 

 come down as low as the parallel of Himavdn, or 

 the snowy mountains, or about thirty degrees of 

 latitude North, Calanus seems to allude to tiiese 

 wonderful stas, when he said to Alexander's 

 messenger, that formerly there were springs of 

 water, others of m.iik, honey, wine, and oil; but 

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