[29]The people of South Wales.
[30]The Orkney Islands.
[31]Probably the islands now known as the Shetlands.
[32]The opinions as to the identity of ancient Thule have been numerous in the extreme. The common, and apparently the best founded opinion, is that Thule is the island of Iceland.
[33]Like others of the ancient writers, Pliny falls into the error of considering Atlas, not as an extensive chain of mountains, but as an isolated mountain, surrounded by sands. With reference to its height, the whole range declines considerably from west to east; the highest summits in Morocco reaching to nearly 13,000 feet, in Tunis not 5000.
[34]It is now universally agreed among the learned that the island of Taprobana is the modern Ceylon.
[35]A general term, probably, for the great peninsula of India, below the Ganges.
[36]It is probable that the passage here referred to is from Cape Comorin to Ceylon, and not from Cape Ramanan Cor, the nearest part of the continent.
[37]Possibly the word “Radijah,” or “Rajah,” denoting the rank which he held, may have been here taken by Pliny for his name.
[38]Probably Cape Ramanan Cor, which is in reality the nearest point to the coast of Ceylon.