344 PLI]S"T'S NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book IT. 
Eningia^ is of not less magDitude. Some writers state that 
these regions, as far as the river Vistula, are inhabited by the 
Sarmati, the Yenedi^, the Sciri, and the Hirri^, and that there 
is a gulf there known by the name of Cylipenus"*, at the mouth 
of which is the island of Latris, after which comes another 
gulf, that of Lagnus, which borders on the Cimbri. The 
Cimbrian Promontory, running out into the sea for a great 
distance, forms a peninsula which bears the name of Cartris^. 
Passing this coast, there are three and twenty islands which 
have been made known by the Eoman arms^: the most 
famous of which is Burcana^, called by our people Eabaria, 
from the resemblance borne ^ by a fruit which growls there 
spontaneously. There are those also called Grlsesaria^ by our 
^ By Eningia Hardouin thinks that the country of modern Finland is 
meant. Poinsinet thinks that under the name are included Ingria, Li- 
vonia, and Courland ; while Parisot seems incHned to be of opinion that 
under this name the island of Zealand is meant, a village of which, about 
three-fourths of a league from the western coast, according to him, still 
bears the name of Heininge. 
2 Parisot is of opinion that the Yenedi, also called Yinidse and Yin- 
dili, were of Sclavish origin, and situate on the shores of the Baltic. He 
remarks that this people, in the fifth century, founded in Pomerania, when 
quitted by the Groths, a kingdom, the chiefs of which styled themselves 
the Konjucs of Yinland. Their name is also to be found in Yenden, a 
Russian town in the government of Riga, in Windenburg in Courland, and 
in Wenden in the circle of the Grrand Duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin. 
* Parisot remarks that these two peoples were probably only tribes 
of the Yenedi. 
Parisot feels convinced that Pliny is speaking here of the Gulf of 
Travemunde, the island of Femeren, and then of the gulf which extends 
from that island to Kiel, where the Eider separates Holstein from Jut- 
land. On the other hand, Hardouin thinks that by the Gulf of Cyhpe- 
nus the Gulf of E-iga is meant, and that Latris is the modern island of 
Oesel. But, as Parisot justly remarks, to put this construction on PHny's 
language is to invert the order in which he has hitherto proceeded, evi- 
dently from east to west. 
5 The modern Cape of Skagen on the north of Jutland. 
6 When Drusus held the command in Germany, as we learn from 
Strabo, B. vii. 
7 It is generally agreed that this is the modern island of Borkhum, at 
the mouth of the river Amaiius or Ems. 
3 To a bean, from which {faha) the island had its name of Fabaria. 
In confirmation of this Hardouin states, that in his time there was a 
tower still standing there which was called by the natives Het boon Jiuys^ 
" thie bean house.'* 
^ From the word gles or glas^ which primarily means ' glass^' and then 
