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[ Julius Caesar, Livy, Strabo, Fabius Rusticus, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, &c.]
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[ Thus Caesar: "One side of Britain inclines towards Spain, and the setting sun; on which part Ireland is situated."—Bell. Gall. v. 13.]
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[ These, as well as other resemblances suggested by ancient geographers, have been mostly destroyed by the greater accuracy of modern maps.]
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[ This is so far true, that the northern extremity of Scotland is much narrower than the southern coast of England.]
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[ 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.">[