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CHAP. 29. (15.) — JTINETT-SIX ISLAIfDS OP THE GALLIC OCEA^T. 
In the Ehine itself, nearly 100 miles in length, is the 
most famous island^ of the Batavi and the Canninefates, as 
also other islands of the Erisii^ the Chanci, the Frisia- 
bones^, the Sturii^ and the Marsacii, which lie between He- 
lium^ and Elevum^ These are the names of the mouths 
Schwarzwald, Odenwald, Spessart, Ehon, Thuringer Wald, the Hartz 
mountain (wliich seems in a great measm'e to have retained the ancient 
name), Eaube Alp, Steigerwald, Fichtelgebirge, Erzgebirge, and Riesen- 
gebirge. At a later period when the momitains of G-ermany had become 
better known, the name was applied to the more limited range extending 
around Bohemia, and through Moravia into Hungary. 
1 This island appears to have been formed by the bifurcation of the 
Khine, the northern branch of which enters the sea at Katwyck, a few 
miles north of Ley den, by the Waal and the course of the Maas, after it has 
received the Waal, and by the sea. The Waal or Yahahs seems to have 
undergone considerable changes, and the place of its junction with the 
Maas may have varied. Pliny makes the island nearly 100 miles in length, 
which is about the distance from the fort of Schenkenschanz, where the 
first separation of the Rhine takes place, to the mouth of the Maas. The 
name of Batavia was no doubt the genuine name, which is still preserved 
in Betuwe, the name of a district at the bifurcation of the Bliine and the 
Waal. The Canninefates, a people of the same race as the Batavi, also 
occupied the island, and as the Batavi seem to have been in the eastern 
part, it is supposed that the Canninefates occupied the western. They 
were subdued by Tiberius in the reign of Augustus. 
2 The Frisii or Frisones were one of the great tribes of north-western 
Grermany, properly belongmg to the group of the Ingsevones. They in" 
habited the country about Lake Flevo and other lakes, between the Rhine 
and the Ems, so as to be bounded on the south by the Bructeri, and on 
the east by the Chauci. Tacitus distinguishes between the Frisii Ma- 
jores and Minores, and it is supposed that the latter dwelt on the east of 
the canal of Drusus in the north of Holland, and the former between the 
rivers Flevus and Amisia, that is, in the country which still bears the 
name of Friesland. The Chauci have been previously mentioned. 
3 The Frisiabones or Frissevones are again mentioned in C. 31 of the 
present Book as a people of Gaul. In what locahty they dwelt has not 
been ascertained by historians. 
4 The Sturii are supposed to have inhabited the modern South HoUand, 
while the Marsacii probably inhabited the island which the Meuse forms 
at its junction with the Rhine, at the modern Dortrecht in Zealand. 
^ Supposed to be the site of the modern fortress of Briel, situate at 
the mouth of the Meuse. 
^ Probably the same as the modern Yheland (thus partly retaining its 
ancient name), an island north of the Texel. The more ancient writers 
speak of two main arms, into which the Rhine was divided on entering 
