]
38 (return)
[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly destroyed by the greater accuracy of modern maps.
38 (return)
[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly destroyed by the greater accuracy of modern maps.
Tacitus
]
30 (return)
[ The governors of the province, and commanders in chief over all the legions stationed in it. ]
31 (return)
[ He had formerly been commander of the ninth legion. ]
32 (return)
[ The province of Aquitania extended from the Pyrenean mountains to the river Liger (Loire). ]
33 (return)
[ The governors of the neighboring provinces. ]
34 (return)
[ Agricola was consul in the year of Rome 830, A. D. 77, along with Domitian. They succeeded, in the calends of July, the consuls Vespasian and Titus, who began the year. ]
35 (return)
[ He was admitted into the Pontifical College, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. ]
36 (return)
[ Julius Caesar, Livy, Strabo, Fabius Rusticus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, &c. ]
37 (return)
[ Thus Caesar: "One side of Britain inclines towards Spain, and the setting sun; on which part Ireland is situated. "—Bell. Gall. v. 13.
]
38 (return)
[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly destroyed by the greater accuracy of modern maps. ]
39 (return)
[ This is so far true, that the northern extremity of Scotland is much narrower than the southern coast of England. ]
40 (return)
[ The Orkney Islands. These, although now first thoroughly known to the Romans, had before been heard of, and mentioned by authors. Thus Mela, in. 6: "There are thirty of the Orcades, separated from each other by narrow straits. " And Pliny, iv. 16: "The Orcades are forty in number, at a small distance from each other. " In the reign of Claudius, the report concerning these islands was particularly current, and adulation converted it into the news of a victory. Hence Hieronymus in his Chronicon says, "Claudius triumphed over the Britons, and added the Orcades to the Roman empire. "]
41 (return)
[ Camden supposes the Shetland Islands to be meant here by Thule; others imagine it to have been one of the Hebrides. Pliny, iv. 16, mentions Thule as the most remote of all known islands; and, by placing it but one day's sail from the Frozen Ocean, renders it probable that Iceland was intended. Procopius (Bell. Goth, ii. 15) speaks of another Thule, which must have been Norway, which many of the ancients thought to be an island.
30 (return)
[ The governors of the province, and commanders in chief over all the legions stationed in it. ]
31 (return)
[ He had formerly been commander of the ninth legion. ]
32 (return)
[ The province of Aquitania extended from the Pyrenean mountains to the river Liger (Loire). ]
33 (return)
[ The governors of the neighboring provinces. ]
34 (return)
[ Agricola was consul in the year of Rome 830, A. D. 77, along with Domitian. They succeeded, in the calends of July, the consuls Vespasian and Titus, who began the year. ]
35 (return)
[ He was admitted into the Pontifical College, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. ]
36 (return)
[ Julius Caesar, Livy, Strabo, Fabius Rusticus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, &c. ]
37 (return)
[ Thus Caesar: "One side of Britain inclines towards Spain, and the setting sun; on which part Ireland is situated. "—Bell. Gall. v. 13.
]
38 (return)
[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly destroyed by the greater accuracy of modern maps. ]
39 (return)
[ This is so far true, that the northern extremity of Scotland is much narrower than the southern coast of England. ]
40 (return)
[ The Orkney Islands. These, although now first thoroughly known to the Romans, had before been heard of, and mentioned by authors. Thus Mela, in. 6: "There are thirty of the Orcades, separated from each other by narrow straits. " And Pliny, iv. 16: "The Orcades are forty in number, at a small distance from each other. " In the reign of Claudius, the report concerning these islands was particularly current, and adulation converted it into the news of a victory. Hence Hieronymus in his Chronicon says, "Claudius triumphed over the Britons, and added the Orcades to the Roman empire. "]
41 (return)
[ Camden supposes the Shetland Islands to be meant here by Thule; others imagine it to have been one of the Hebrides. Pliny, iv. 16, mentions Thule as the most remote of all known islands; and, by placing it but one day's sail from the Frozen Ocean, renders it probable that Iceland was intended. Procopius (Bell. Goth, ii. 15) speaks of another Thule, which must have been Norway, which many of the ancients thought to be an island.
