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pliny's natueal history. [Book IV, 
sea, the word ^Amalcliian' signifying in tlie language of these 
races, frozen. Philemon again says that it is called Morima- 
rusa or the " Dead Sea" by the Cimbri, as far as the Promon- 
tory of Subeas, beyond which it has the name of the Cro- 
nian^ Sea. Xenophon of Lampsacus tells us that at a distance 
of three days' sail from the shores of Scythia, there is an 
island of immense size called Baltia^, which by Pytheas is 
called Basilia^. Some islands^ called Oonae are said to be 
1 With reference to these divisions of land and sea, a subject which is 
involved in the greatest obscurity, Parisot states it as his opinion that 
the Amalchian or Icy Sea is that portion of the Baltic which extends 
from Cape Butt to Cape Grrinea, while on the other hand the Cronian 
Sea comprehends all the gulfs which he to the east of Cape Butt, such 
as the HafF, the gulfs of Stettin and Danzic, the Frisch-Haff, and the Ku- 
risch-HafF. He also thinks that the name of 'Cronian' originally belonged 
only to that portion of the Baltic which washes the coast of Courland, 
but that travellers gradually apphed the term to the whole of the sea. 
He is also of opinion that the word " Cronium" owes its origin to the 
Teutonic and Danish adjective groen or " green." The extreme verdure 
which characterizes the islands of the Danish archipelago has given to 
the piece of water which separates the islands of Falster and Moen the 
name of Grroensund, and it is far from improbable that the same epithet 
was given to the Pomeranian and Prussian Seas, which the Bomans would 
be not unhkely to call 'Gronium' or 'Cronium fretum,' or 'Cronium 
mare.' In the name 'Parapanisus' he also discovers a resemblance to that 
of modern Pomerania. 
2 Upon this Parisot remarks that on leaving Cape Butt, at a distance 
of about twenty-five leagues in a straight hne, we come to the island of 
Funen or Fyen, commonly called Fionia, the most considerable of the 
Danish archipelago next to Zealand, and which lying between the two 
Belts, the Grreater and the Smaller, may very probably from that cir- 
cumstance have obtained the name of Baltia. Brotier takes Baltia to 
be no other than Nova Zembla — so conflictmg are the opinions of com- 
mentators ! 
3 Parisot suggests that under this name may possibly lie concealed 
that of the modern island of Zealand or Seeland, and that it may have 
borne on the side of it next to the Belt the name of Baltseeland, easily 
corrupted by the Grreeks into Basiha. 
^ Brotier takes these to be the islands of Aloo, and Bieloi or Ostrow, 
at the mouth of the river Paropanisus, which he considers to be the same 
as the Obi. Parisot on the other hand is of opinion that islands of the 
Baltic are here referred to ; that from the resemblance of the name Oonae 
to the Grreek woV, " an egg," the story that the natives subsisted on the 
eggs of birds was formed ; that not improbably the group of the Hippo- 
podes resembled the shape of a horse- shoe, from which the story men- 
tioned by Pliny took its rise 3 and that the Fanesii (or, as the reading here 
