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;OF THE DRUIDS. 211your situation or tliat <strong>of</strong> Orpheus, and that youro<strong>the</strong>r circumstances do perfectly tally to this description:yet is different in this, that he speaksonely <strong>of</strong> one iland, not less than Sicily*; whereas you understand this <strong>of</strong> several ilands, which altoge<strong>the</strong>rhave scarce that extent.<strong>the</strong> marks <strong>of</strong> tlieI answer, thatright place which I have mentionedalready, and such o<strong>the</strong>rs as I shall presentlyalledge, will more than counterbalance any mistake(ifiland.<strong>the</strong>re be any) about <strong>the</strong> bigness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>Travellers and mariners, who ei<strong>the</strong>r havenot been ashore or not staidlong enough in anyplace to survey it, are known to speak onelv byguess, and frequently very much at random. Hasnot Great Britain itself (so much celebrated, asPliny justly writes f, by <strong>the</strong> Greec and Romanauthors) been taken to be <strong>of</strong> vast extent, and notcertainly known by <strong>the</strong> Romans to be an iland^till <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> Vespasian J? Endless examples<strong>of</strong> this kind might easily be produced. And asfor <strong>the</strong> multitude <strong>of</strong> those ilands, which are separatedonely by narrow channels, it makes nothingat all against me. For, besides that such an aggregation<strong>of</strong> ilands is <strong>of</strong>ten taken in commonspeech for onely one; as not to go out <strong>of</strong> our owndominions, such is Schetland, in name one country,but in efiect consisting <strong>of</strong> more than 30 ilandsso <strong>the</strong>re are several indications, join'd to <strong>the</strong> tra-» OvK (\aVit Ini JtxuXitff. Ubi svprtuf See Section III, t See Section V.

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