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soldiers, from their amber ; but bj the barbarians tbey are 
known as Austeravia and Actania. 
CHAP. 28. — OEEMAIS^T. 
The whole of the shores of this sea as far as the Scaldis^, 
a river of Grermany, is inhabited by nations, the dimensions 
of whose respective territories it is quite impossible to state, 
so immensely do the authors differ who have touched upon 
this subject. The Greek writers and some of our own 
countrymen have stated the coast of Germany to be 2500 
miles in extent, while Agrippa, comprising Rhsetia and !Nori- 
cum in his estimate, makes the length to be 686^ miles, and 
the breadth 148^. (14.) The breadth of Ehsetia alone how- 
ever very nearly exceeds that number of miles, and indeed 
we ought to state that it was only subjugated at about the 
period of the death of that general ; while as for Germany, 
the whole of it was not thoroughly known to us for many 
years after his time. If I may be allowed to form a conjec- 
ture, the margin of the coast will be found to be not far short 
of the estimate of the Greek writers, while the distance in a 
straight line will nearly correspond with that mentioned by 
Agrippa. 
There are five German races ; the Yandili^, parts of whom 
figuratively " amber." Probably (Eland and Grothland. They will be 
found again mentioned in the Thirtieth Chapter of the present Book. 
See p. 351. ^ Now the Scheldt. 
2 In a straight line, of course. Parisot is of opinion that in forming 
this estimate Agrippa began at the angle formed by the river Piave in 
lat. 46° 4', measm^iQg thence to Cape Rubeas (now Rutt) in lat. 54° 25'. 
This would give 8° 21', to which, if we add some twenty leagues for obli- 
quity or difference of longitude, the total would make exactly the distance 
here mentioned. 
3 As Parisot remarks, it is totally impossible to conceive the source 
of such an erroneous conclusion as this. Some readings make the amount 
248, others 268. 
^ As already mentioned, Zeuss has satisfactorily shown that the Yan- 
dUi or YindiU properly belonged to the Hermiones. Tacitus mentions 
but three groups of the Grerman nations ; the Ingsevones on the ocean, 
the Hermiones in the interior, and the Istsevones in the east and south 
of G-ermany. The Yandili, a Grothic race, dwelt originally on the northern 
coast of G-ermany, but afterwards settled north of the Marcomanni on the 
