LXvI 
Surones, 
Norway. 
Tne Naze. 
LGM alee 1 ays 
force of fancy, give full credit to the infulated form of Scandinavia, given in 
one of Cluverius’s maps *; which, he fays, is drawn from the erroneous ac- 
counts of the antients. 
The Suiones pofleffed the modern Sweden, and extended even to the ocean, 
and were a potent naval power. Their fhips were fo conftruéted, with prows 
at each end, that they were always ready to advance. ‘Thefe people, in after 
times, proved, under the common name of Wortmans, the peft and conquerors of 
great part of fouthern Europe; their fkill in maritime affairs fitting them for 
diftant expeditions. In the fixth century they were called Swethans, and were 
famous for their cavalry. In their time, the Sable, N° 30, was common in 
their country: Fornandes, therefore, obferves, that notwithftanding they lived 
poorly, they were moft richly cloathed: he alfo informs us, that they fupplicd 
the Romans with thefe precious furs, through the means of numbers of interven= 
ing nations +. Scandinavia, in that period, had got the name of Scanzia ; and 
as it was then called an ifland, and by ornandes {, a native of the country, 
there is all the reafon to imagine, that the paflage into the Hyperborean ocean was 
not in- his time clofed. 
After repaffing the Sound, appear Schonen, Halland, and Bohufland, Swedifh pro- 
vinces, bounded by the Kattegatte. Halland, from fome fimilitude of found, is 
fuppofed to have been the feat of the Hilleviones, a mot populous nation ; perhaps 
the fame with the Suiones of Tacitus; for beyond them he places the Sitones, or the 
country of Norway, who were a great naval people ; as the hiftorian fays that they 
differed not from the Suiones, except in being under a female government. The pro- 
montory of the Naze, vifible at eight or ten leagues diftance, with the low land of 
Bevenbergen in Jutland, forms the entrance into the German fea.. The Bommel, 
and the Drommel, high mountains to the eaft of it; and the high land of Le, a 
yaft mountain, gradually rifing from the fhore, to the weft, are noted guides to 
mariners. It is reafonably fuppofed, that P/iny intended this vaft region by his 
ifland of Nerigon, from whence, fays he, was a paffage to Thule. He fpeaks alfo of 
Bergos, which, from agreement of found, is thought to be the prefent province of 
Bergen. The promontorium Rubeas is guefled to be the North Cape, between which 
and the Cimbri, Philemon § places the Mare Morimarufa, or the Dead Sea, fo 
called from the clouded fky that ufually reigned there. 
Our firft certain. knowlege of the inhabitants of this country, was from the 
defolation they brought on the fouthern nations by their piratical invafions. 
* At the end of his fecond vol. of Germania Antiqua. t Sornandes de Reb. Geticis, ce iii. 
x The fame, ¢. iv. § As quoted by Pliny, lib. iv. c. 136 
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