[363] North Foreland.
[364] Lizard Point.
[365] The Orkney and Shetland isles.
[366] Under this name the ancients comprised not only Germany proper but Denmark, Norway, &c.
[367] Rens of Galloway.
[368] North Foreland.
[369] Lizard Point.
[370] Bertram has endeavoured to reconcile the various and discordant calculations given by different ancient authors of the circuit of our island. On such vague principles as these estimations are made, it would be almost impossible, even now, for two persons to produce the same result.
[371] Ptolemy's expression is obscure; but he was evidently led to this supposition by the notion that Caledonia or Scotland trended to the east, as appears from his latitudes and longitudes. This form, therefore, he not unaptly compares to the inverted Z. It would be a trespass on the patience of the reader to attempt to reconcile what is irreconcilable.
[372] These words are chiefly taken from Tacitus. The obscurity of the expression and the absurdity of the comparison, will sufficiently show the ignorance of those ancients whose works have reached the present time, in regard to our island.—Tacit. Vit. Agricolæ, sec. 10.