253 ([return])
[ Instead of formas deorum, "forms of deities," some, with more probability, read equorum, "of the horses," which are feigned to draw the chariot of the sun.]
254 ([return])
[ Thus Quintus Curtius, speaking of the Indian Ocean, says, "Nature itself can proceed no further.">[
255 ([return])
[ The Baltic Sea.]
256 ([return])
[ Now, the kingdom of Prussia, the duchies of Samogitia and Courland, the palatinates of Livonia and Esthonia, in the name of which last the ancient appellation of these people is preserved.]
257 ([return])
[ Because the inhabitants of this extreme part of Germany retained the Scythico-Celtic language, which long prevailed in Britain.]