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 344 plint's NATUEAL HISTOET. [Book lY. Eningia^ is of not less magnitude. Some -writers state that these regions, as far as the river A^istula, are inhabited hj the Sarmati, the Yenedi', the Sciri, and the Hirri^, and that there is a gulf there known by the name of Cylipenus^, at the mouth of which is the island of Latris, after which comes another gulf, that of Lao-nus, which borders on the Cimbri. The Cimbrian Promontory, running out into the sea for a great distance, forms a peninsula which bears the name of Cartris^. Passing this coast, there are three and twenty islands which have been made known by the Eoman arms^: the most famous of which is Burcana^, called by our people Pabaria, from the resemblance borne ^ by a fruit Avhich grows there spontaneously. There are those also called Glaesaria^ by our 1 By Eningia Hardouin thinks that the country of modem Finland is meant. Poinsinet thinks that mider the name are mcluded Ingria, Li- vonia, and Courland ; wlxile Parisot seems incUned to be of opinion that imder tliis name the island of Zealand is meant, a village of which, about three-fourths of a league from the western coast, according to him, stiU bears the name of Heininge. 2 Parisot is of opinion that the Yenedi, also called Yinid* and Yin- dih, were of Sclavish origin, and situate on the shores of the Baltic. He remarks that this people, in the fifth century, founded in Pomerania, when quitted by the Goths, a kingdom, the chiefs of which styled themselves the Konjucs of Yinland. Their name is also to be foxmd in Yenden, a Hussian town in the government of Riga, in Windenbm'g in Courland, and in Wenden in the circle of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenbui'g Schwerin. ' Parisot remarks that these two peoples were probably only tribes of the Yenedi, "^ Parisot feels convinced that Phny is speaking here of the Gulf of Travemunde, the island of Femeren, and then of the gulf which extends from that island to Kiel, where the Eider separates Holsteiu from Jut- land. On the other hand, Hardouin tliinks that by the Gulf of Cylipe- nus the Gulf of Riga is meant, and that Latris is the modern island of Oesel. But, as Parisot justly remarks, to put this construction on Pliny's language is to invert the order in which he has hitherto proceeded, evi- dently from east to west. 5 The modern Cape of Skagen on the north of Jutland. ^ When Drusus held the command in Germany, as we learn from Strabo, B. vii. '^ It is generally agreed that tliis is the modem island of Borkhum, at the mouth of the river Amaiius or Ems. 3 To a bean, from which {/aba) the island had its name of Fabaria. In confirmation of this Hardouin states, that in liis time there was a tower still standing there which was called by the natives Het boon huys^ • From the word gles or glas^ which primarily means ' glass,' and then
 * ' the bean house."