A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths. Being an introduction to the ancient and modern history of Europe / By John Pinkerton.

  • John Pinkerton
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1787
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Credit: A dissertation on the origin and progress of the Scythians or Goths. Being an introduction to the ancient and modern history of Europe / By John Pinkerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Greeks, and fome of us, have related the borders of Germany to be of Twenty-five Hundred miles. Agrippa, iircluding Rhaetia and Noricum, puts it’s length at 696 miles, it’s breadth at 248, the breadth of Rhaetia almoft alone, (fubdued about the time of Agrippa’s death) being greater than that of Germany- few the South]. For Germany was not known many years after, nor is yet thoroughly fo. If conjefture may be allowed, there will not be much wanting of its circum- ference in the opinion of the Greeks, and of it’s lencrth as given by Agrippa. ^ There are Five divifions of Germans. The Vandili, of whom a part are the Burgundiones, Varini, Cari- ni, Guttones. Another Divifion is the Ingaevones, of whom are the Cimbri, Teutoni, and nations of Chauci. Neareft the Rhine are the Iftaevones, of whom the in- land Cimbri form a part. The Hermiones of whom arc the Suevi, Hermunduri, Chatti, Cherufei. The Fifth Part is formed by the Peukini Bafternae, bordering on the Daci abovementioned. Famous rivers flowing into the ocean are the Guttalus, the Viftillus or Viftula, the Albis, Vifurgis, Amifius, Rhenus, Mofa. In the inner parts the Hercynian mountains extend, inferior to none in fame. [Phny then defer ties Batavia^ Britain, Gaul, &c.] Lib. VI. 14. Nunc, omnibus quae funt interiora Afiae diftls, RiPHiEos montes tranfeendat animus, dextraque litori OcEANi incedat. Tribus hie e partibus caeli alluens Afiam, ScYTHicus a Septentrione, ab oriente Eous, a meridie IndiUs vocatur ; varieque, per finus et accolas, in complura nomina dividitur. Verum Afix- quoque magna portio appofita feptentrioni, injuria fideris rigen- tis, vaftas folitudines habet. Ab extremo aquilone ad initium orientis £eftivi Scyth^?: funt. Extra eos, ultra- que aquilonis mitia, Hyperborlos aliqui pofuere; pluribus in Europa di£lis. Primum inde nofeitur pro- montorium Ccltica; Lytarmis, fluvius Carambucis, ubi lalfata cum liderum vi Ripk^orum montium defi- ciuntjuga. Ibique Arimph.<eos quofdam accepinnis, haud dilfimilem Hyperboreis gentem Ultra eos plane jam Scythjt, Cimmeru, Cisrianthi, Georg 1, et Amazonum gens. Haec ufque adCafpium ct Hyreanium mare. Nam eterumpit e Scythico oceano in averfa Afix* .... Irrumpit autem Rriflis faucibus in iongitudincm fpatiofis. Translat
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