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To the north-east of the Moroara or Moravians, are the Delamensen . East of the Delamensen are the Horithi ; and north of the Delamensen are the Surpe ; to the west also are the Syssele . To the north of the Horithi is Maegtha-land , and north of Maegtha-land is Sermende , quite to the Riffin , or the Riphean mountains.
Touching the Riphean Mountains, whereupon the snow lieth continually, and where hence in times past it was thought that Tanais the river did spring, and that the rest of the wonders of Nature which the Grecians feigned and invented of old were there to be seen, our men which lately came from thence neither saw them, nor yet have brought home any perfect relation of them, although they remained there for the space of three months, and had gotten in that time some intelligence of the language of Muscovy.
"The sound Of conflict was o'erpast, the shout of all Whom earth could send from her remotest bounds, Heathen or faithful; from thy hundred mouths, That feed the Caspian with Riphean snows.
A mere corruption of the montes Riphaei or Riphean mountains of Orosius; and Alfred seems here to have got beyond his knowledge, copying merely from Orosius. Forst. The Ost sea of Alfred comprehends what are now called the Scaggerrack, Catte-gatt, the Sound, the two Belts, and the Baltic, which our mariners still call the East Sea. Forst.
Europe begins, as I have said before, at the Tanais, which has its source in the northern parts of the Riphean mountains , which are near the Sarmatic ocean; and this river then runs directly south, on the west side of Alexander's temples, to the nation of the Russians , where it runs into the fen called Maeotis, and thence it issues eastwards with a great stream, near the town called Theodosia, into the Euxine.
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