LXIV 
SARMATZ. 
ENINGIA. 
Oonz. 
Hipporode. 
FD a AL ah Ne De 
In my return to the German fea, let me review the antient inhabitants of the 
Baltic. ‘The wandering Sarmate, of Scythian defccut, poffeffed all the country 
from lake Onega to the Viffula; and part of the vaft Hercymian foreft, famous of old 
for its wild beafts, occupied moft of this country. Bifons with their great manes : 
Uri with their enormous horns, which the natives bound with filver and quaffed at 
their great feafts: the Alces, or Elk, then fabled to have jointlefs legs: and Wild 
Horles, were among the quadrupeds of this tra *. I fmile at the defcription of 
certain birds of the Hercynian wood, whofe feathers fhone in the night, and often 
proved the guide to the bewildered travellert¢. The refplendent plumage of the 
Strix Nyétea, the Snowy Owl, N° 121, might probably have ftruck the eye of the 
benighted wanderer, and given rife to the ftrange relation. 
Eningia was the oppofite fhore, and the fame with the modern Finland, inhabited 
by people of amazing favagenefs and fqualid poverty; who lived by the chace, 
headed their arrows with bones, cloathed themfelves with fkins, lay on the ground, 
and had no other fhelter for their infants than a few interwoven boughs{. They 
were then, what the people of Terra del Fuego are now. There is no certainty 
re{pecting the Oone ; iflanders, who fed, as many do at prefent, on the eggs of wild 
fowl and on oats || ; but moft probably they were the natives of the ifles of Aland, 
and the adjacent archipelago; for Mela exprefsly places them oppofite to the 
Sarmata. We may add, that the Hippopode and Panoti might be the inhabitants 
of the northern part of the Bothnian gulph; the firft fabled to have hoofs like 
horfes, the laft ears fo large as to ferve inftead of cloaks. The Hippopode were 
certainly the fame fort of people as the Finni Lignipedes of Olaus, and the Skride 
Finnus of Ohihere. They wore {now-fhoes, which might fairly give the idea of 
their being, like horfes, hoofed and fhod. As to the Panoti, they baffle my ima- 
gination. 
The Bothnian and Finland gulphs feem to me to have been, in the time of Ta- 
citus, part of his Mare pigrum ac immotum, which, with part of the Hyper- 
borean ocean, really infulated Scandinavia, and which he places beyond the 
Suiones, or modern Sweden. Pliny gives, I fuppofe from the relation of Brizi/h or 
other voyagers, to part of this fea, probably the moft northern, the title of 1- 
rimarufa, or Dead Sea, and Cronium. The learned Forfter, with great ingenuity, 
derives the word from the Gaelic and Celtic language. ‘The firft, from the Wel, 
mor, fea, and marw, dead ; the other from the /ri/h, muir-croinn, the coagulated, 
i. e. congealed fea. Tacitus adds to his account, that it was believed to encir- 
® Cefar Bell. Gall. lib. iv. Plin. lib. viii.c. 15. + Solinus, Co 32. Plittu Xs Ce 470 
{ Tacitus de Mor, Germ. i Forfter's OL/. 96. 
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