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its breadth 300 ; he also thinks that the breadth of Hibernia 
is the same, but that its length is less bj 200 miles. This 
last island is situate beyond Britannia, the passage across 
being the shortest from the territory of the Silures^ a distance 
of thirty miles. Of the remaining islands none is said to 
have a greater circumference than 125 miles. Among these 
there are the Orcades^, forty in number, and situate within 
a short distance of each other, the seven islands called Ac- 
modse^, the Hsebudes, thirty in number, and, between Hi- 
bernia and Britannia, the islands of Mona^,Monapia^,Kicina^, 
Vectis^, Limnus^, and Andros^. Below it are the islands 
called Samnis and Axantos^^, and opposite, scattered in the 
German Sea, are those known as the GlsBsarise^^, but which 
^ The people of South Wales. 
^ The Orkney islands were included under this name. Pomponiu3 
Mela and Ptolemy make them but thirty in number, while Solinus fixes 
their number at three only. 
3 Also called ^modse or Hsemodse, most probably the islands now 
known as the Shetlands. Camden however and the older antiquarians 
refer the Hsemodse to the Baltic sea, considering them different from the 
Acmodee here mentioned, while Salmasius on the other hand considers the 
Acmodse or Hsemodaa and the Hebrides as identical. Parisot remarks 
that off the West Cape of the Isle of Skye and the Isle of North Uist, 
the nearest of the Het rides to the Shetland islands, there is a vast gulf 
filled with islands, which still bears the name of Mamaddy or Maddy, 
from which the G-reeks may have easily derived the words Al Maddal^ 
whence the Latin Hsemodse. 
The Isle of Anglesea. ^ Most probably the Isle of Man. 
^ Camden and Gosselin {RecTi. sur la GrSogr. des Anciens) consider 
that under this name is meant the island of Racklin, situate near the 
north-eastern extremity of Ireland. A Bicina is spoken of by Ptolemy, 
but that island is one of the Hebrides. 
7 This Yectis is considered by Grossehn to be the same as the small 
island of White-Horn, situate at the entrance of the Bay of Wigtown in 
Scotland. It must not be confounded with the more southern Yectis, or 
Isle of Wight. 
^ According to GosseHn this is the island of Dalkey, at the entrance of 
Dublin Bay. 
^ Camden thinks that this is the same as Bardsey Island, at the south 
of the island of Anglesea, while Mannert and G-osselin think that it is 
the island of Lambay. 
According to Brotier these islands belong to the coast of Britanny, 
being the modern isles of Sian and Ushant. 
1^ As already mentioned, he probably speaks of the islands of (Eland 
and G^othland, and Ameland, called Austeravia or Actania, in which 
glcesum or amber was found by the Roman soldiers. See p. 344. 
