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OF THE nRUIDS. 203and Norway) this Hyperborean continent, I say,must be carefully distinguish'd from <strong>the</strong> Hyperboreaniland; whose soil was more temperate andfertile, as its inhabitants more civiliz'd, harmless,and happy. But, to prevent all cavils, I declarebefore-hand, thatas by Thule I mean onely that<strong>of</strong> Phy<strong>the</strong>as, or Iceland, and not <strong>the</strong> conjecturesor mistakes <strong>of</strong> people that liv'd long after him;some making it to be Ireland, o<strong>the</strong>rs Schetland(which I believe to be <strong>the</strong> Thule <strong>of</strong> Tacitus*)o<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>the</strong> nor<strong>the</strong>rmost part <strong>of</strong> Great Britain, ando<strong>the</strong>rs o<strong>the</strong>r places I: so by <strong>the</strong> iland <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hyperboreans,I mean that describ'd by DiodorusSiculus after Hecateus and o<strong>the</strong>rs, as being aniland *'in <strong>the</strong> ocean beyond Gaule to <strong>the</strong> north J,"or under <strong>the</strong> Bear, where people liv'd with no lesssimplicity than indolence and contentment;andwhich Orpheus, or, if you please, Onomacritus,very rightly places near <strong>the</strong> Cronian§ or Deadsea. 'Tis bv this situation, as hereafter moreparticularly mark'd, that I am willing to be* Insulas, quas Orcadas vocant, invenit domuitque. Despectaest et Thule, quam hactenus nix et hieras abdtbat. In vitaAgric. cap. 10.+ See <strong>the</strong> Essai/ concerning <strong>the</strong> Thule <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> aniknts, by SirBobert Sibbald., Ey fjroiq «*Tiirfpav rn; KiKriKr.i; TOvrojj, Kara tc» flxsavoy, m&t va^ov, UX,K^OViOVTE iTtl%Ma-MVTln«f Tsy i/Tcp?»psr)jf ^gpeTTSj VjHp>iVT£ QaXaa-a-av.Arg-onaut. ver, 1079',

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