LVIII 
JutTvanp. 
CIMBRIAN 
DELUGE. 
Tue Sounn. 
Pf UP ial Bi 
Futland and Holjfein, the antient Cimbrica Cherfonefus *, and €artris +, terminat- 
ing in the low point called the Skagen, or Scaw, ftretches out in form of a penin- 
fula, bounded by the North fea and the Kattegatte, the oblique approach into the 
Baltic. Itisa very narrow tra&, and only the refting-place of birds in their way 
from Scandinavia, and the farther north, the refidence of numerous fpecies. 
The rich marfhes, in a climate mild from its fituation between two feas, afford 
numbers of wholefome plants, the food of a remarkably fine breed of cattle. Be- 
fides the home confumption, thefe provinces fend out annually thirty-two thoufand 
head. ‘The nobility do not think it beneath them to prefide over the dairy: and 
their number of cows is princely. M. De Rantzau had not fewer than fix hundred 
milch cows. 
What the extent of this country might have been in very early times is un- 
known: it muft have been prodigioufly great, otherwife it never could have pour- 
ed out that amazing number of people it did, in their eruption into France, when 
they were defeated by Marius, in 101 before Curist. Their army was compute 
ed to confift of three hundred thoufand fighting men (including the Teutonz) be- 
fides women and children. About feven years before, they had fuffered a great’ 
calamity from an inundation of the fea, which had deftroyed great part of their 
country ; and compelled the furvivors, then crouded in the narrow Cher fonefus, to 
apply to the Romans for other lands. Tacitus {peaks of the veftiges of this once 
mighty people, in the lines, vifible in his time, on each fhore. I prefume that the 
inundations to which this coaft is fubjeét from the fea, hath utterly deftroyed every 
trace of them. The charts plainly point out their overwhelmed territories in 
“futs-riff, and the neighboring fand-banks. The firft might have been the con- 
tinuation of land from the end of Futland, beginning at the Skaw, and running 
out into the North fea in form of a fcythe, not very remote from land, and ter- 
minating a little fouth of Bergen in Norway, leaving between its banks and that 
kingdom a deeper channel into the Baltic. 
The Kattegatte lies between part of ‘futland and the coaft of Sweden: the laft 
covered with ifles innumerable. It is almoft clofed at the extremity, by the low 
Danifh iflands of Seland and’ Funen, which had in old times been (with Sweden) the 
feat of the Suiones. Between the firft and the coaft of Sweden, is the famous Sound, 
the paflage tributary to the Danes by thoufands of fhips. Thefe ifles were of old 
called Codonania§, and gave to the Kattegatte the name of Sinus Codanus. The 
proper Baltic feems to have been the Adare Suevicum of the antients; and the far- 
theft part, the Aare Sarmaticum, and part of the Mare Scythicum. As a na- 
* Ptolem. lib. is, Ce 24. + Plin, Nat, Hift, lib. iv. c. 33. § Mela, lib, iii, c. 3-8. * 
turalift, 
