r.M : ESSAY ON THE 



•islands of St'hula or TJiuk now Ferro, Chaiidicd the Shetland Isles , Indra^- 

 ,.dwfpa or the Orkneys, are placed bey oiid the British Isles, and I have ar- 

 ' ranged them in the manner they are in the map, on the supposition that 

 they really answer to the above islands. ; :■...■ 



The same configuration is assigned to the shores of the old continent im 

 the north-east, south-east and south-west quarters : but in these instances- 

 there is no resemblance whatever. Besides, the Paurdnics are totally 

 unacquainted with the north-east and south-west quarters ; and with regard* 

 to the south-east, they know much less than we could reasonably expe6l. 

 In giving the same conjuration to all, they have had no other view, but 

 to preserve the symmetry of the corresponding parts. 



Another striking peculiarity in the north-west quarter is the three foM 

 gap of Crauncha^ which I conceive to be the three belts leading into the 

 Baltic. These were made by Scanda, called also Canda in many of th@ 

 spoken diale61:s, and Candaos by the Tkracians or Goths. As he is a 

 form of Hara, he is really Haraja, and Hara.-cula or Hercules ; and 

 the Cronian straits were known also in the west, under the appellation of 

 straits of Hercules according to Tacitus ; and the denominations of Scan^ 

 did, and Candavia^ may be derived from him. 



The chasm in the mountains surroundhig the world, with the abode 

 of the great spirit beyond them, among v/aters, is also a singular feature 

 in this deUneation of the countries taward the north-west quarter of the old 

 continent, aud which will be fully illustrated hereafter, 



I MENTIONED before, that the Paurdnics are acquainted with only two 

 quarters of the old continent, the north-west and south-east; which, with 

 the intermediate parts, form, as it were^ a belt across the old continent in 



